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The digital side of BacPack provides museum visitors with the opportunity to tinker with various tangible representations of existing BioBricks and design bacteria in a virtual environment.
 
The digital side of BacPack provides museum visitors with the opportunity to tinker with various tangible representations of existing BioBricks and design bacteria in a virtual environment.
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<h2>Design and Layout</h2>
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Each screen is divided into four work areas, allowing for collaboration in the design process. Each user group has their own individual petri dish area, where they can insert genes into a bacterium and follow the steps to deploy their engineered bacteria to the environment. The top central part of the screen contains the testing environment (Mars, Antarctica, the Deep Sea). There is a status bar at the very top of the screen, which displays the current needs of the environment.
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<h2>Example Interaction</h2>
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The main interaction is broken down into the concrete procedural steps:
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<li>Selecting a combination of an "input" gene and an "output" gene.</li>
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<li>Placing the genes into a petri dish to insert into a plasmid, which then enters the bacterium.</li>
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<li>Dragging the bacterium into a flask, where it can multiply to create a colony.</li>
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<li>Dragging the flask containing the engineered bacterial colony to the environment, which deploys the colony to the appropriate resource area.</li>
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<li>After the bacteria are successfully deployed, the status bar updates reflecting the bacteria's output.</li>
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<h3>Tips and Guidance</h3>
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To facilitate users through the process and interaction, a tab containing information on what to do next is available next to each petri dish. The information dynamically updates as the user makes progress towards deploying their engineered bacteria to the environment, and reflects any successes or failures.
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<h3>Gene Background Information</h3>
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<h3>Information about iGEM</h3>
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<h3>Error Stages</h3>
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Revision as of 00:31, 12 September 2015

DIGITAL COMPONENT

The digital side of BacPack provides museum visitors with the opportunity to tinker with various tangible representations of existing BioBricks and design bacteria in a virtual environment.

Design and Layout

Each screen is divided into four work areas, allowing for collaboration in the design process. Each user group has their own individual petri dish area, where they can insert genes into a bacterium and follow the steps to deploy their engineered bacteria to the environment. The top central part of the screen contains the testing environment (Mars, Antarctica, the Deep Sea). There is a status bar at the very top of the screen, which displays the current needs of the environment.

Example Interaction

The main interaction is broken down into the concrete procedural steps:

  1. Selecting a combination of an "input" gene and an "output" gene.
  2. Placing the genes into a petri dish to insert into a plasmid, which then enters the bacterium.
  3. Dragging the bacterium into a flask, where it can multiply to create a colony.
  4. Dragging the flask containing the engineered bacterial colony to the environment, which deploys the colony to the appropriate resource area.
  5. After the bacteria are successfully deployed, the status bar updates reflecting the bacteria's output.

Tips and Guidance

To facilitate users through the process and interaction, a tab containing information on what to do next is available next to each petri dish. The information dynamically updates as the user makes progress towards deploying their engineered bacteria to the environment, and reflects any successes or failures.

Gene Background Information

Information about iGEM

Error Stages