International Rational Genome Design Contest

Synthetic Biology is a new discipline for the creation of valuable bioresources from information resources, in order to resolve human society and environmental issues. See details.

Design freely and Test safely is control criteria for GenoCon.The selectors will screen the submitted DNA sequences in the light of current safety and ethical standards and select candidate sequences for experiments. Any DNA sequence designed with only information has no safety and ethical problems. GenoCon will accept any designed DNA sequence as long as it is designed based on scientific evidence. Such designed sequence may not be candidate for experiments, but may be publicized through this contest site widely. Those sequences might be highly evaluated in the field of genome design, used as an open resource, and verified in the future.