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This year is the first year the University of Groningen is joining the iGEM competition. Our team – The Groningen Transformers – will focus on cell-cell signal systems, cellular automata and the Conway’s Game of Life!

Overall project

One of the patterns created by the Game of Life

In our braistorm sessions we all agreed that it would be fun to create a system in Escherichia coli which could generate itself. Using such a system and a system where cells could communicate which eachother, nice patterns could be generate with that.

So we went looking for a way to use these systems together and make use of the patterns it could create. You could use this in a grid form to make games - four-on-a-row and minesweeper. However we figured out that the nicest thing to do with this, is making a cellulair automaton like the Conway's game of life. Here you only need to give an input in the beginning and the system will generate itself.

Project Details

Part 2 The Experiments

Part 3

Results

The great tower of Groningen

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 ''This year is the first year the University of Groningen is joining the iGEM competition. Our team – The Groningen Transformers – will focus on cell-cell signal systems, cellular automata and the Conway’s Game of Life!''
 == '''Overall project''' ==
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 In our braistorm sessions we all agreed that it would be fun to create a system in ''Escherichia coli'' which could generate itself. Using such a system and a system where cells could communicate which eachother, nice patterns could be generate with that.