As part of an unprecedented partnership, Opentrons will select 10 iGEM teams to provide the OT-2 automated pipetting platform for free a>. Additionally, all iGEM 2018 teams will receive a $2000 discount on their first pipetting platform during the 2018 competition season.
iGEM teams involved in interlaboratory measurement studies are pioneers in reproducible experiments, setting a higher standard for reproducibility for all types of life science laboratories, iGEM teams, and synthetic biology professionals. Improving scientific reproducibility is also part of Opentrons' core mission. We firmly believe that replicating experimental results should be as easy as downloading a protocol and running it on a robot. That's why Opentrons' partnership with iGEM is a perfect fit -By working together, we can Achieve new repeatability standards faster than you can do alone.
Our selected iGEM teams will receive the necessary robots and modules to run experiments such as transformation, ligation, digestion, and more. In this way, they were able to validate our idea that reproducibility between laboratories can be improved by conducting experiments on a common automated platform. The data generated by these teams and the protocols and open source integrations they produce will have an important impact on the broader scientific community and provide valuable information for Opentrons' future product roadmap.
ABOUT OPENTRONS
Opentrons's mission is to make the power and repeatability of automation technology available to every laboratory. Our latest product is the most cost-effective high-precision automated laboratory pipetting platform in history: OT-2.
With easy-to-use hardware and an open-source software platform, Opentrons helps scientists (and students!) collaborate better, easily replicate each other's experimental results, and find biotech solutions to the world's most pressing problems faster. Our protocol library was developed in collaboration with leading scientists from top institutions around the world, including Stanford University, MIT, and the Mayo Clinic. In making biological research more open and reproducible. In this way, we hope to promote collaboration and exchange in scientific research, so that more laboratories and researchers can use these proven experimental protocols to accelerate the process of scientific discovery.
Since working with the Genspace iGEM team to test the first prototype in 2014, we've been here at iGEM announced our first-generation robot, OT-1. We are very excited to be partnering with the iGEM Foundation again to provide their student teams with a laboratory pipetting platform!
About IGEM
The iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machines) Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to building the workforce of the future through competitions, open community collaboration, and Promote the development of synthetic biology education. iGEM's main project is the iGEM Competition. Through this competition, iGEM provides thousands of students with the opportunity to challenge the technical boundaries of biology with projects that are safe, responsible, and beneficial to the world. iGEM aims to empower people everywhere to solve local problems. The new 'After iGEM' program aims to inspire, support and inspire more than 30,000 iGEMers, wherever they are Continue to provide leadership in the field of synthetic biology.
About the Fifth International Interlaboratory Measurement Study
Over the past few years, iGEM has advanced science by conducting the largest-ever cross-laboratory study in synthetic biology. The goal of these studies is to improve the measurement tools available to the iGEM community and the synthetic biology community at large. The studies are now published as an open access journal article in PLOS ONE.
2018 marks the fifth year of the International Interlaboratory Measurement Study. The goal of this study is to identify and correct sources of systematic variability in synthetic biology measurements so that ultimately the variability between measurements performed in different laboratories is no greater than the variability between measurements performed in the same laboratory. variability. Until we reach this point, synthetic biology cannot reach its full potential as an engineering discipline because laboratories cannot reliably build on the work of others. If you would like to learn about current and past reproducibility research, please visit the 2018 InterLab page. If you would like to learn how the Opentrons program provides sponsorship support, please visit the Opentrons Sponsorships page on the iGEM website.
We hope that by adding laboratory automation, the iGEM team will be able to achieve higher levels of reproducibility with unprecedented ease. Please stay tuned for the results of our collaboration!
Opentrons Contact: Kristin Ellis, Director of Scientific Development kristin@opentrons.com
iGEM Contact: Meagan Lizarazo, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer meagan@igem.org
Queensland University of Technology's Sebastian Eggert obtained his PhD in laboratory automation using the Opentrons OT-1 robot in his tissue engineering laboratory.
