This category is for discussing updates to the Open DNA Collections. Help needed, everyone welcome!
As of Spring 2023, Reclone became the steward of the Open DNA Collections, which includes: the Open Enzyme Collection, the Open Reporter Collection, the Research in Diagnostics Collection (aka. the Molecular Diagnostics Toolkit), the Engineered RT-LAMP Enzymes, the E. coli Protein Expression Toolkit, and the Open Yeast Collection.
In Mar-2023, the Open Bioeconomy Lab received £20,000 to make updates to the Open DNA Collections.
We put out a call to the Reclone Community to see what other open enzymes or DNA parts that would be useful to improve these community-own reagents. This wishlist can be found here.
We are currently (Aug-2023) going through this list and prioritising which parts are off-patent/patent-less that can be shortlisted for synthesis.
Parts that have not been selected this round will be put on a backlog for synthesis in the future (funding-permitting)!
If you’d like to contribute to this project (including selecting parts, making parts open and compatible to be used in different assembly methods, etc.) - please let @YKH know!
Current volunteers working on this project include: @jenny_molloy, @osn_scott, @YKH.