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| − | <h4>Before you start: </h4>
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| − | <li> <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Requirements">Requirements page </a> </li>
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| − | <h4> Styling your wiki </h4>
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| − | <p>You may style this page as you like or you can simply leave the style as it is. You can easily keep the styling and edit the content of these default wiki pages with your project information and completely fulfill the requirement to document your project.</p>
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| − | <p>While you may not win Best Wiki with this styling, your team is still eligible for all other awards. This default wiki meets the requirements, it improves navigability and ease of use for visitors, and you should not feel it is necessary to style beyond what has been provided.</p>
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| − | <p>On this page you can document your project, introduce your team members, document your progress and share your iGEM experience with the rest of the world! </p>
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| − | <p> <a href="https://2015.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Team:Sherbrooke&action=edit"> Click here to edit this page! </a></p>
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| − | <p> This year we have created templates for teams to use freely. More information on how to use and edit the templates can be found on the
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| − | <p>This wiki will be your team’s first interaction with the rest of the world, so here are a few tips to help you get started: </p>
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| − | <li>Start documenting your project as early as possible; don’t leave anything to the last minute before the Wiki Freeze. For a complete list of deadlines visit the <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Calendar_of_Events">iGEM 2015 calendar</a> </li>
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| − | <p> You can also view other team wikis for inspiration! Here are some examples:</p>
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| − | <li> <a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:SDU-Denmark/"> 2014 SDU Denmark </a> </li>
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| | + | <em>Summary</em> – This article discusses the conception process and ideas considered to bring forth an automated robotic platform |
| | + | assembled to execute sequences and protocols requiring manipulations in a biology laboratory. Ambition for this platform is |
| | + | focused towards creating computerized equipment in laboratories to quicken the procedures normally handled by technicians or |
| | + | researchers, even as to make them completely human interaction free. Liberating technicians and researchers of such duties |
| | + | allows for better efficiency in the processes and gives the opportunity to focus on other aspects of research. With that in |
| | + | mind, the research process is sped up and gives a window of opportunity for great progress and breakthrough discoveries that |
| | + | can apply to many fields of expertise. The platform is composed of different modules interacting between each other. Those |
| | + | modules include the physical platform acting as a framing support and working area reference, a dual-axis moving gripper |
| | + | assigned for the handling of objects around the area of work, a centrifuge designed to be fully automated and free of human |
| | + | interplays and a controller board conceived to electrically supply the several devices concerned on the robotic platform and |
| | + | accustom different applications. |
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Conception and Building of a Modular and Automated Robotic Platform to Perform Synthetic Biology Laboratory Protocols
Summary – This article discusses the conception process and ideas considered to bring forth an automated robotic platform
assembled to execute sequences and protocols requiring manipulations in a biology laboratory. Ambition for this platform is
focused towards creating computerized equipment in laboratories to quicken the procedures normally handled by technicians or
researchers, even as to make them completely human interaction free. Liberating technicians and researchers of such duties
allows for better efficiency in the processes and gives the opportunity to focus on other aspects of research. With that in
mind, the research process is sped up and gives a window of opportunity for great progress and breakthrough discoveries that
can apply to many fields of expertise. The platform is composed of different modules interacting between each other. Those
modules include the physical platform acting as a framing support and working area reference, a dual-axis moving gripper
assigned for the handling of objects around the area of work, a centrifuge designed to be fully automated and free of human
interplays and a controller board conceived to electrically supply the several devices concerned on the robotic platform and
accustom different applications.