Help:Starting Wet-lab

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This page is meant to provide an introduction to wet-lab techniques and equipment needed to begin BioBrick Assembly


Note: Although we'll try to make this documentation as helpful as possible, nothing beats tracking down a geneticist or microbiologist and having them teach you any or all of the techniques below in person!

Contents

Before you start...

  • Funding, of course, is going to be your top priority for starting out.
  • Openwetware, our sister site, is a consortium of synthetic biology academic laboratories from around the country. This page will help point you in the right direction of particularly Assembly-relevant Protocols and Materials

Equipment

Lab Hardware

This is mechanical and "dry" stuff that you'll want to have for your labwork

Lab Wetware

Chemicals

Non-living substances for labwork

Bio-stuff

Enzymes and other "live" materials

Techniques

  • The following is a list of the techniques that show up very often in Assembly. Each is linked to the corresponding

Links