Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Describe a biological engineering application or tool you want to develop and why. Virus Hunting The usage of virus hunting to discover viruses in animal populations that might become a pandemic and exploit it as a gene therapy tool. first of all the viruses are isolated from hosts of interest, then sequencing their genome, then characterize the virus. Following steps will be:
Week 2 HW: DNA Read, Write and Edit
Part 0: Attend or watch all lecture and recitation videos. Part 1: Benchling & In-silico Gel Art Make a free account at benchling.com Import the Lambda DNA. Simulate Restriction Enzyme Digestion with the following Enzymes: EcoRI HindIII BamHI KpnI EcoRV SacI SalI Create a pattern/image in the style of Paul Vanouse’s Latent Figure Protocol artworks. I imagine the pattern as a hand making number one Part 3: DNA Design Challenge Choose your protein. I chose tau protein that it’s hyperphosphorylation is involved in Alzheimer’s disease progression I chose UniProt to get its sequence Reference: https://rest.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P10636.fasta
Python Script for Opentrons Artwork I chose to make the egyptian beetle inspiration artistic design using the GUI link: https://opentrons-art.rcdonovan.com/?id=1xb86617h0wq061