Team:Groningen/Project
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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
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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life| Conway's game of life]. Here you only need to give an input in the beginning and the system will generate itself.
Project Details
The Registry of Standard Parts a lot of biobricks are involved in the [http://partsregistry.org/AHL|AHL quorum sensing] system of Vibrio fischeri. For our system this was really helpful, since we did not want to use a cell-cell signal system witch would interfere with E. coli's own quorum sensing system.