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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Staab, Paul R.
• Walossek, Jörg
• Nellessen, David
• Grünberg, Raik
• Arndt, Katja M.
• Müller, Kristian M.

Titel

SynBioWave—a real-time communication platform for molecular and synthetic biology

Ist Teil von

• Bioinformatics, 2010-11, Vol.26 (21), p.2782-2783

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 Contact: kristian@biologie.uni-freiburg.de Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online and at http://www.synbiowave.org.