The issue of standardization in synthetic biology is a recurring one. As a discipline that incorporates engineering principles into biological designs, synthetic biology needs effective ways to communicate results and allow different researchers (both academic and industrial) to build upon previous results and improve on existing designs. An aspect that is left out of the discussions, especially when they happen at the level of academic and industrial consortia or policymaking, is whether or not standards are applicable or even useful in everyday research practice. In this caucus article, we examine this particular issue with the hope of including it in the standardization discussions agenda and provide insights into a topic that synthetic biology researchers experience daily.

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合成微生物学核心：合成生物学标准是否适用于日常研究实践？

合成生物学中的标准化问题是一个反复出现的问题。作为将工程原理纳入生物学设计的学科，合成生物学需要有效的方法来传达结果，并允许不同的研究人员（学术界和工业界）基于先前的结果并改进现有的设计。讨论中没有考虑的一个方面，尤其是当它们发生在学术和工业联合会或政策制定层面时，是标准是否在日常研究实践中适用或什至有用。在本核心小组文章中，我们研究了这一特定问题，希望将其纳入标准化讨论议程，并提供对合成生物学研究人员每天都会遇到的主题的见解。