Help:Toolbox Overview

From partsregistry.org

The Registry provides several tools that will aid you in designing and understanding biobrick systems and devices:


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Add a Part to Your Sandbox

Members of Registry groups may add three kinds of parts to their Sandbox: Basic Parts, Composite Parts, and Construction Intermediates. Adding a part to your Sandbox allows you to quickly and easily manipulate new designs.

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Search Parts

The part searches tool allows you to quickly and easily scour the registry for information, trace the origin of more complex parts and see which higher systems have been constructed with any part of choice.

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Sequence Analysis

This tool is used to organize and analyze a set of DNA sequencing runs by comparing DNA sequences against parts in the Registry. Use Blast at NCBI to compare sequences with a large number of genomes.

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DNA Part Repositories

The BioBrick Repository maintains the DNA of the BioBrick parts in plasmids in cells. The same functional part such as a particular Quad Part Inverter may be available in different cell strains or plasmids and may have been built with different assembly techniques resulting in different scars between its components. All of this information is stored in the repository database and is available here.

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Users & Groups

Manage your user information, see your groups, join new groups, and find names to use for new parts here. For more information, see the Registry Accounts help page.


Having designed your biobricks using the registry tool set, you'll want to physically make your biobrick; the online help system gives detailed guides to protocols and procedures relating to this topic.