Help:Sandbox Overview

Your BioBrick Sandbox is a designated development area where you and your team can freely add & edit parts, develop design concepts and ideas and piece your project together brick-by-brick. Adding a part to your sandbox is quick and easy to do. Once this is done, you can go about making use of the registry's toolbox to refine, consolidate and use your parts and devices.

When you are happy with your part and you have successfully made it a reality, you should send your DNA to the Registry. You can then mark it as one of your 'favorites' and share it with the other teams. In this way you can highlight your team's successes and at the same time, easily review other notable parts developed in this year's competition.

• How to make a part one of your favorites

Once the part has arrived at the registry and is available, the appropriate people at the registry will review the part in effort to insure it meets the expected standards. This is very similar to the process one would go through when publishing a paper for example. By this stage, your part should be well-documented and its pages should give a thorough insight into its background, usage and application. Assuming the part is suitable, the part will then be allocated a unique part number and added to the appropriate section in the Registry's Central catalog, bringing it to the attention of the rest of the iGEM community.

Is your sandbox a little messy? Need to delete some redundant parts that are no longer useful to anyone? You can easily clean-up your sandbox by following this simple procedure:

• How to Clean-up Your Sandbox