Homework

Weekly homework submissions:

• Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices

  First, describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why.

• Week 2 HW: DNA Read/Write and Edit

  Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art Make free account at benchling.com Import the Lambda DNA Simulate Restriction Enzyme Digestion with the following Enzymes: EncoRI HindIII BamHI KpnI EcoRV SacI SalI Create a pattern/image in the style of Paul Vanouse’s Latent Figure Protocol artworks. Part 3: DNA Design Challenge 3.1 Choose your protein In recitation, we discussed that you will pick a protein for your homework that you find interesting. Which protein have you chosen and why? Using one of the tools described in recitation (NCBI, UniProt, google), obtain the protein sequence for the protein you chose 3.2 Reverse Translate: Protein (amino acid) sequence to DNA (nucleotide) sequence.