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The international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition is a well-known example of synthetic biology and a workbench for the development of heterodox, multidisciplinary and frontier work made by undergraduate students. We review the origin, organization and structure of the competition; we describe how an iGEM team can be set in place, and briefly summarize some of the main milestones and challenges of a competition that is only one decade old. We discuss the links of the competition with the Registry of Standard Biological Parts and the flagship role of iGEM as a very trench of the synthetic biology revolution.
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For further details visit the wiki of Valencia-Biocampus 2013 team, Wormboys project: http://2013.igem.org/Team:Valencia_Biocampus.
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Porcar, M., Peretó, J. (2014). The iGEM Competition. In: Synthetic Biology. SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9382-7_6
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