It's easy to ignore Twitter and email.
But most people answer the phone.
You may find that people ignore your inquiries because they can't see any personal
benefit from going to the trouble to answer. Giving them a reason to reply can help
that. You are asking someone to do work for you -- give them something in return.
People also respond better to people they know. That is where LinkedIn can help,
and to a lesser extent Facebook and Google+. You may be connected to someone
by a third or fourth distance LinkedIn connection. Asking the person you know to
ask the person they know can get results that a cold call could not. That is the purpose
of the service.
You may also know someone with prestige, renown, fame, or some other attribute
that might get a better response rate than you would. A request from Nature, or the
Citizen's Science Quarterly might get a response that a request from an amateur
biologist might not. Most newspapers have an Action Line column to help readers
get the attention of organizations that ignore individuals without printing presses.
A service like that might be something this group can put together. A letter with a
lot of names and degrees at the bottom might get more attention than a Tweet.
Lastly, you have a lot of friends here who can help. If we are engaged in making a
better parts registry, or an adjunct web site to improve on and add to the existing
work, then getting the attention and help of people who have used particular parts
can be a group endeavor, and the information can be recorded permanently in the
database/web-page for future researchers.
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Get a free science project every week! "http://scitoys.com/newsletter.html"On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@gmail.com> wrote:
Academics are devilishly hard to contact. When I was plotting out my plasmid, many if the parts I wanted were used in a different context by the bacillafilla team, so I tried asking.. By email to several folks, twitter, etc. No replies.
I ended up re-synthesizing some parts, couldn't afford others, so had to settle for a simpler system. Thankfully it still worked, no thanks to the incommunicado iGEMmers.
Pieter <pietervanboheemen@gmail.com> wrote:
>In the parts registry some parts are labelled with a star, indicating
>some
>people liked working with it. If you are lucky they added some text on
>the
>"experience" page of that part.
>
>The registry itself is quite awefull in terms of searching and
>navigating.
>I feel that I more user-friendly interface would already increase the
>value
>of the database. A list of "top biobricks" should be a default feature.
>
>The lack of documentation is the main reason why you hardly see any
>parts
>being reused in the next years competition.
>
>Whenever you like to get a biobrick for DIY usage, you might aswell
>contact
>the designers of the brick instead of the registry.
>
>On Saturday, 26 May 2012 03:26:37 UTC+2, Fernando Lindenberg wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys, I have some questions.
>>
>> 1. Is it possible to get Biobricks from the Registry of Standard
>parts to
>> use in a DIYbio lab?
>> 2. On lab reagents label it always says "Only for research use",
>using it
>> at home or at a community lab would be a research use?
>> 3. Are there any rules for doing DIYbio?
>>
>> Sorry if these topics have been covered.
>>
>> Thanks =)
>>
>>
>>
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