User:Umesh Pallen

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University of Kerala, Kariyavattom Thiruvananthapuram Kerala - 695581 India
 * Umesh P
 * Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology


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I work in Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology at Kerala University, Kerala, India. I learned about OpenWetWare from From the web, and I've joined because To share ideas and thoughts in Synthetic Biology.

Education

 * Currently Ph D Student at Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Kerala
 * M Phil, 2007, University of Kerala

Research interests
Synthetic biology is a rapidly growing field with a focus on designing novel biological systems for useful applications. Though the grand vision is clear, the scientific community is busy developing protocols for assembling parts into functional devices, devices into circuits and circuits into organisms. Currently there are only few programming languages that deal with problem of ground up construction of organisms[1]. In my opinion, none of them provides high-level design description for direct implementation in the living cells.

My Phd work is about developing a new JAVA based langugage - Kera (meaning coconut in Malayalam). Kera is a programming language based on modularity, user friendliness, a comprehensive bio-rule library and is based on the genome designer data model. Genome Designer is a robust BioCAD platform currently under development in our lab. The unique feature of Kera will be allowing development of structured models that are easier to maintain and implement. Kera will have capability to handle data design models and simulations. We hope to release the first version early next year.

Publications
// leave a comment about a paper here
 * 1) Paper1 pmid=6947258
 * 2) Paper2 pmid=13718526
 * 1) Book1 isbn=0879697164

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