Team:SJTU-software/Collaborations
Overview
Due to the impact of Covid-19, we were inaccesible to communicate with other teams in person. However, we
still had in-depth collaborations with several teams. We shared ideas of establishing a rice database with lots of
teams, and discussed the problems encountered in the process. We provided technical support to some teams,
helping them solve many problems. Through the continuous commiunoication, we gained ample suggestions
and improved our project. The following were some of the teams we had a close cooperation. In the virtual
simulation experiment, we provided a platform for many teams to display their projects, such as University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Tongji University (TJU), Zhejiang University of Technology
(ZJUT), etc.
With ZJUT_China_B
We offered a lot of help for ZJUT_China_B. For instance, we hosted several virtual meeting where we gave them
advice on how to build the web layout of virus library and shared our experience about building a database.
Specifically, ZJUT_China_B encountered many difficulties in building the database, such as being unfamiliar with
E-R model and little understanding on the back-end and front-end work. Therefore, we instructed them how to
build a virus database step by step, and we also improved our skills. When our project was about to be
completed, we invited them to give some feedbacks on database. With their help, we found some bugs, and
improve the user-friendliness. Details on collaboration Wiki part can be found here:
https://2020.igem.org/Team:ZJUT_China_B/Collaborations
With UESTC-Software
UESTC-Software focused on protein domain cluster and interaction. Being the same track, we had meeting online
from time to time and learned much from each other. We reminded them that a molecular visualization was of an
importance part of their project. Besides, we sent one of our team members to their campus in order to help them
solve some problems and provide many suggestions on docking and molecular structure analyses. In return,
members from UESTC-Software offered us some advice that we should focus more on our rice pan-genome
database instead of doing too many jobs on other parts of projects. Part of UESTC-Software's project was
displayed in our Virtual Lab. Therefore, their project about protein 3-D structure earned good publicity when we
introduced our Virtual Lab to students in Qinghai province, China. Details on collabration Wiki part can be found
here:
https://2020.igem.org/Team:UESTC-Software/Collaborations
With SJTU-BioX-Shanghai
Same as past years, we continued to maintain close relationship with SJTU-BioX-Shanghai. Because of the
convenience of being the same university, SJTU-BioX-Shanghai was the only team which we had a face-to-face
communication with. As a team focused on the software, we were able to help them deal with some of their data
using computational method. We also provided them with some helps in finding useful database tools to
facilitate the alignment of short sequences. As a wet-lab team, SJTU-BioX-Shanghai also took their advantage. For
example, they could figure out crucial problems in experimental analyses and share many ideas of experimental
tools to us, which could be a source of inspiration for our works. Beyond the project, we also exchanged feelings
on the progress, production of promotion videos and presentation videos, key points of presentation and skills of
communication. Click the link below to see detail on SJTU-BioX-Shanghai’s collaboration page:
https://2020.igem.org/Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai/Collaborations
Community
2020 Southern China Regional Meeting
In May 2020, we participated in 2020 Southern China Regional Meeting hosted by SZU iGEM. It was the first that
we exhibited the Brainstorm procedure and introduction of our team. It turned out that idea of Virtual Lab came
into reality soon when it was proposed at that meeting.
Details about our poster for this meeting could be found on:
iGEM Software Team China Regional Meeting
On 15th August, 2020, all of the five software iGEM teams in China had an online meeting to briefly introduce
our imagination, exchange our ideas, offer the suggestions mutually and explore opportunities of collaboration.
We decided to design a comprehensive experimental assistant software package at that time, but other iGEM
team encouraged us to narrow the content as much as possible so that the project could become more realizable.
As a result, we changed our mind and began to focus on a certain experimental area. We felt gratitude towards
their sincere suggestions.
CCIC 2020
Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCIC) offered an outstanding platform for us to exhibit our project
and communicate with each other. During that time, our initial idea was to assembly various kinds of modelling
function as a package. However, most commonly mentioned advice was that our project was too large to put into
implementation, and focusing one single field might be a better choice for our program. We adopted the advice
and finally chose to focus on the rice related pan-genome program. Additionally, since we showed the excellent
part we had done and our enlightening view for future, many teams communicated with us and we eventually
had a solid partnership with ZJUT. During the collaboration, as mentioned above, we helped them build a
database and realize interaction design for users.
