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From 2014hs.igem.org

Below are some resources that may come in handy as you're working on your projects for iGEM 2014 High School!

Wiki editing

• MediaWiki has detailed instructions for wiki editing, including the following:
• General Formatting
• Image Editing
• Table Editing

Purchasing laboratory reagents and materials

• New England BioLabs - Educational Course Support program provides reagents to educational groups! Contact their customer service department for more information.
• Fisher Scientific offers a wide array of common laboratory materials and reagents
• Sigma Aldrich offers many chemical compounds, including antibiotics

Databases and websites to explain concepts:

• Parts Registry Help page is where you can find information about BioBrick Parts and how to use them
• Team Virginia 2013 developed a high school education series including slides, lab exercises, and readings
• BioBuilder has a series of synthetic biology laboratory exercises
• Labster provides exercises in an interactive virtual learning environment
• OpenWetWare is a source for protocols and other lab-related information
• CompuBioTicDB is a database of biological components for synthetic biology

Tutorials:

• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (University of Utah)
• Primer design and ordering (OpenWetWare)
• Ligation and plasmid construction (BioBuilder)

Software tools:

• FAQ section on iGEM.org answers questions about wiki-editing
• TinkerCell is a free "Computer-Aided Design software tool for Synthetic Biology"
• GENtle is free software that allows users to edit DNA sequences, generate plasmid maps, and more

Protocols:

• Making competent cells (Registry)
• Competent cell transformation (Registry)
• Ligation (Registry)
• Restriction digest (Registry)
• Ligation and Transformation module (Bio-Rad)
• Yeast transformation (University of Manitoba)