International Rational Genome Design Contest

The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)

Link to homepage of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)

Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE) Division, RIKEN

Link to Homepage of Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE) Division, which is an organizer of GenoCon.

RIKEN SciNetS

Link to SciNes (Scientists' Networking System) which is being developed in BASE, RIKEN as an ideal life science information infrastructure.   

SyntheticBiology.org

Link to Community Page for Synthetic Biology.

Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology, Kyoto University

Link to homepage of Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology, Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Kyoto University. The laboratory lead by Prof. Sakai conducts studies on cellular functions of microorganisms aiming for producing useful proteins and applying those proteins to solve resource and environmental problems.  

iGEM 2010

Link to iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine competition) in which undergraduate participants compete over their skills of synthesizing biological systems with Bacterium Coli. The competition started in 2004. Some of the participants designed biological systems have been realized including light-sensitive Bacterium Coli, and Banana Smelling Bacterium Coli. In order to participate in the competition, equipments for substantiate experiments are required.

Yamazaki lab, Hokkaido Univ: Concept Design of Artificial Genome

Link to homepage introducing Concept Design of Artificial Genome, conceived by Associate Professor Yamazaki of Hokkaido University.

Information about IRES (Internal Ribosome Entry Site), useful to start translating

・I.R.E.S. Database

・SciNetS(cria228s1ria228s1i)

Search Sites (enzyme, etc)

・UniProtKB

Information about the enzyme used in the preceding research

・3-hexulose-6-phosphate synthase

UniProtKB

SciNetS(cria214s2ria214u95348i)

・6-phospho-3-hexuloisomerase

UniProtKB

SciNetS(cria214s2ria214u162897i)

Information to transform amino acid to bases

・Codon Usage Database

・SciNetS(ria151i)