Attributions in short

• DAI, Shengkun: data for database; content for wiki; poker on biosafety and bioethics.
• DONG, Lihui: data for database.
• FENG, Xiao: team leader; proposed “Crowdsourcing” in Co-development.
• HE, Zhilu: UI design for project and Synbio Box; wiki, poster, banner and uniform design.
• HU, Xiangyue: design on functions of experiment module in CORE Design; interlab and wet-lab validation, fundraising.
• LAI, Shaofan: implementation and release of Synbio Box for Human Practices; back-end of project, including part of modeling module in CORE Design; database; automated unit testing and documentation of project.
• LIANG, Jiajian: wiki programmer, responsible for editing and posting of wiki contents.
• LIN, Jinjin: front-end of project (CORE Design, including experiment and modeling module, and design of underlying data structure of CORE Design); implementation of mouse movement tracking tools.
• LIU, Siyuan: front-end of project (CO-development, including personal database, notifications, index, login, registration module); suggestions and improvements on features and interface of software.
• LUO, Sicheng: front-end of CORE Bank.
• LI, Jiajin: advisor.
• MENG, Tianyu: testing of Synbio Box.
• SHI, Yi: PM of project and main UI designer of project and Synbio Box; design of wiki and uniform.
• TANG, Liang: proposed redesign based on ODE in CORE Design; data for database; help design modelling module; contents for wiki.
• WAN, Qianhui: mathematical modeling of project; help design modeling module in CORE Design.
• WEN, Zhengyang: responsible for Human Practices; data for database; contents for wiki.
• XU, Weilin: proposed standard repository of previous project by CORE Bank; content for wiki; advisor.
• YANG, Xiaoran: design on functions of experiment module in CORE Design; interlab; wet-lab validation of project.
• YAO, Nan: data for database; Biology Festival as Human Practices.
• YE, Jiaqi: wiki programmer, responsible for editing and posting of wiki contents.
• ZENG, Dongyu: data for database; Biology Festival as Human Practices.

Attributions in details

1. Project

1/Overview: All team members participated in the ideas and designs of our project. Shaofan Lai was mainly responsible for the back-end of the software. Jinjin Lin, Siyuan Liu and Sicheng Luo were mainly responsible for the front-end of the software.

2/CORE(Crowdsourcing Open Redesign Engine)

CORE Design:

Co-development

CORE Bank

3/Wet-lab Practices:

Xiangyue Hu and Xiaoran Yang were responsible for interlab and wet-lab validation of our project.

4/Mathematical Modeling:

Qianhui Wan was responsible for the mathematical modeling for our project.

2. Human Practices and Collaborations:

Overview: All team members participated in some part of our Human Practices. For more details please see “human practice”.

1/Biology Festival:

Zhengyang Wen was responsible for the planning of the activity; Dongyu Zeng and Nan Yao was mainly responsible for the execution of the activity; all team members participated to some extent in the Festival.

2/Synbio Box

Yi Shi designed the game, and Zhilu He helped improve the design. Shaofan Lai implemented the game.

3/Consult with professors

All team members took part in the activity.

4/Collaboration with NJU-China

Jinjin Lin designed the tool that can be used to track the movement of mice in the cage.

5/Meetups held by NCTU_Formosa

Poster was designed by Zhilu He.

Xiao Feng, Xiangyue Hu, Jinjin Lin, Yi Shi, Liang Tang and Xiaoran Yue participated in the meetup.

6/Meetups with high-school teams and wet-lab teams

Shengkun Dai, Zhengyang Wen and Weilin Xu participated in the meetup.

7/Meetups held by Peking

Poster was designed by Zhilu He.

Shengkun Dai, Xiao Feng, Qianhui Wan, Zhengyang Wen and Weilin Xu participated in the meetup.

8/Meetup with freshmen:

Xiao Feng, Yi Shi, Zhengyang Wen and Weilin Xu gave presentations on topics such as synbio and iGEM.

3.Documentation, Art and Designs

1/Wiki:

Contents: Shengkun Dai, Liang Tang, Zhengyang Wen and Weilin Xu were mainly responsible for the contents of the wiki. All other team members contributed to the contents of the wiki.

Designs: Zhilu He and Yi Shi were responsible for the designs of wiki.

Editing and posting: Jiajian Liang and Jiaqi Ye were responsible for the editing and posting of wiki.

2/Uniforms:

Zhilu He and Yi Shi were responsible for the designs of uniforms

4. Financing and Planning of the Journey to Boston

Xiangyue Hu did the financial work for us, who relieved our burden and greatly motivated us to work harder on the project.

Project support and advice:

• Prof. Jianhua Yang gave us advice on how to plan and schedule our project, and on what should be cautious about when we were working on our project.
• Dr. Lingling Zheng gave us instructions on software engineering, and also on the layout of our software.
• Prof. Yan Zhang gave us many supports on fundraising and also on the feasibility of our project.
• Prof. Jian Ren provided us a comfortable working environment, and also gave us suggestions on improving the software.
• Prof. Yongjun Lu gave us advice on how to ensure biosafety.
• Prof. Xionglei He, Prof. Shengfeng Huang and Dr. Yongdong Zhang gave us advice on presentation.

Fundraising help and advice:

School of Life Sciences covered the fees of flights, accommodation and also Team Registration Fee and Jamboree Attendance Fee, which greatly reduced our burden and motivated us to focus on the competition.

Prof. Yan Zhang and Xiangwan Lu helped us a lot when we were registering for the 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree and paid the fees. They also helped us raise the funds to pay for the admission fees for the meetup held by NCTU_Formosa.

Prof. Yongjun Lu and Peibo Yuan helped us raise the funds for wet lab validation, and also funds for participating the CCiC meetup held by Peking iGEM team in August.

Lab support:

Wet-lab Support

Dry-lab Support

Project advisor support

Wiki support:

Sheng Luo, team member of 2014 SYSU-Software team, kindly offered advice to us on how to plan the layout of our wiki.

Presentation Coaching:

Prof. Jianhua Yang and Dr. Lingling Zheng advised us on how to clearly express our project in the presentation.

Prof. Xionglei He gave us advice on how to plan the contents of our presentation.

Human Practices Support:

Without the chance offered by Students' Union of School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, we could not have so successfully held the garden party in the Biology Festival. We acknowledge them for their kind help.

Many thanks to the Academic Division of Youth League Committee of School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University. They helped us arrange for the place and the time for the mini lecture to freshmen.

We collaborated with NJU-China 2015 iGEM team and devised the tool for tracking the movement of mouse and rat, and NJU-China tried and helped us identify the bugs in the tool.

Thanks and acknowledgements for all other people involved in helping make a successful iGEM team:

Team members of SYSU-Software of previous competition gave us much advice and support to us, which encouraged us to perfect our project. They include Haoquan Zhao of 2013 SYSU-Software, Jinyu Li, Mingrui Liang and Rijun Cai of 2014 SYSU-Software.

Ph. D. students Dongni Chen, Sa Xiao, Lei He and Yunhao Sun helped us when we had difficulty in the wet lab experiment.

Many thanks to instructor of team NYMU-Taipei, Prof. Chuan-Hsiung Chang, who gave us advice on improvements of the project.

We thank Prof. Zhumei He and Jie Chen, experts in biosafety in the campus, who gave us advice on safety and ethics considerations in the project.