Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
To make things tidy, I decided to answer most of the questions about the biological engineering application in sections of a separate project idea page. PLEASE NOTE: on the project page accessible through the link I have been unable to show two images: an image of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting and a diagram showing how I’ve scored the actions I’ve suggested. It doesn’t appear to load the image, yet the build log indicates it’s a success. I’m not sure what the problem is but it means you won’t see those two pictures.
Week 2 DNA Read, Write and Edit
Assignment 2 I created a Benchling account, loaded up the Lambda DNA, and then tried different combinations of the following restriction enzymes. EcoRI HindIII BamHI KpnI EcoRV SacI SalI I note that the Automation Art tools produces randomly created electrophoresis ladders, but I excluded Ndel, Pvull and Xhol - because they were not in the list we were supposed to use.
Assignment 3 Following on from last week’s assignment, I decided to use Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting (the one hanging in the National Gallery) for my art subject. I tried to download an image of the painting and upload it to the Opentrons automated art interface. Importing it made some artistic effects I didn’t want - it flooded the background with yellow, left out the blue streaks and didn’t do much to distinguish between orange and yellows. Importing it created something that wasn’t recognisable.