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Published on: October 6, 2019
SynBioWave--a real-time communication platform for molecular and synthetic biology
Paul R Staab1, Jörg Walossek, David Nellessen
1Department of Mathematics, University of Freiburg.
Summary:
Synthetic Biology is advanced by many users and relies on the assembly of genetic elements to devices, systems and finally genomes. SynBioWave is a software suite that enables multiple distributed users to analyze and construct genetic parts in real-time collaboration. It builds on Google Wave and provides an extensible robot-robot-user communication framework, a menu driven user interface, biological data handling including DAS and an internal database communication. We demonstrate its use by implementing robots for gene-data retrieval, manipulation and display. The initial development of SynBioWave demonstrates the power of the underlying Google Wave protocol for Synthetic Biology and lays the foundation for continuous and user-friendly extensions. Specialized wave-robots with a manageable set of capabilities will divide and conquer the complex task of creating a genome in silico.
Availability:
The robot is available at SynBioWave@appspot.com, the source code at http://synbiowave.sourceforge.net
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