Biological hardware description language

Timeline
January 2010:
 * present basic synthbio presentation to select audience at draper. identify ways which synthetic biology can further draper's biomed side.
 * contact profs Weiss and Densmore about possible PhD opportunities

October 2010: take GREs and prepare statement of intent. The statement of intent should be a one page summary of your thesis proposal.

December 2010: apply for grad schools

Contact
Ron Weiss, MIT: ask about possible PhD slot and permission to sit in on lectures in the spring

Natalie Kuldell, MIT: ask about possible PhD slot and permission to sit in on lectures in the spring

Doug Densmore, BU: ask about possible PhD slots

Schools to consider
MIT

BU

Harvard

Tufts

UMass

Review Articles
Programming cells: towards an automated 'Genetic Compiler'

Genetic design: rising above the sequence

Genetic parts to program bacteria

The second wave of synthetic biology: from modules to systems

Rule based constraints for the construction of genetic devices

Current tools
TinkerCell: modular CAD tool for synthetic biology

Computational design of synthetic gene circuits with composable parts

Modular modeling of cellular systems with ProMoT/Diva

SYCAMORE—a systems biology computational analysis and modeling research environment

GenoCAD for iGEM: a grammatical approach to the design of standard-compliant constructs

Gene Designer: a synthetic biology tool for constructing artificial DNA segments

BioSpice

GeneDesign 3.0 is an updated synthetic biology toolkit

Clotho

Biofab

Systems Biology Markup Language
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SBML Software Summary

The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models

LibSBML: an API Library for SBML

Synthetic Biology Simulation Suite
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SynBioSS: the synthetic biology modeling suite

SynBioSS designer: a web-based tool for the automated generation of kinetic models for synthetic biological constructs