Fig 3. The 6 tenets of our ideal iGEM project.

The project should aim to tackle an international problem that can involve local stakeholders. The project should be modular in design such that students can “own” individual subprojects, and should allow for a seamless interaction between experimental and computational biology. By building the project on already available iGEM materials, the project can then allow for easy collaboration with other teams and further develop the iGEM foundation’s parts repository. iGEM, international Genetically Engineered Machine.