Software in iGEM should make synthetic biology based on standard parts easier, faster, better or more accessible to our community.
Regardless of what the topic is, iGEM projects often create or adapt computational tools to move their overall project forward. Because they are born out of a direct practical need, these software tools (or new computational methods) can even prove surprisingly useful for others. Without necessarily being big or complex, they can make the crucial difference to a project's success. This award tries to find and honor such "nuggets" of computational work. To be eligible, your software has to be documented and made available under an OSI-approved open-source license.
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This page should aim to make your software accessible and understandable to a wide audience, supplementing the detailed technical documentation available on the repository.
The section below is a separate, independently-written draft, produced by a team member outside the main documentation process. Kept here for reference and comparison; not yet fact-checked by team leadership.
Every line of code — the kinetic model, the assay-data pipeline, and the wiki itself — described as living in a public repository under an MIT license. The stated argument: an iGEM team's most-cited contribution is rarely the wet lab itself, but a small, well-documented, reusable tool.
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