User:Vincent Rouilly/Open Source Standard Biological Part Registry

Background
Biological Engineering (or Synthetic Biology) aims at applying an engineering approach to building biological systems.

Motivations
To enable a web of registries, it would be important to define a standard way of describing a standard biological part. Such a standard description could help the Biological Engineering community in many ways:
 * Ease the development of new registries,
 * Enable a certain level of connectivity between registries.
 * Offer standard interfaces for 3rd parties services.

Draft

 * Unique Identifier
 * LSID type
 * Designer
 * Designer name
 * Short Description
 * Long Description
 * Type
 * need of an ontology (controlled vocabulary) of standard biological part types.
 * Assembly Standard
 * like 'BioBrick' or other. Will have an impact on the scare type too.
 * DNA Sequence
 * Reference

Related Topics

 * Minimum_Information_for_Biological_and_Biomedical_Investigations_(MIBBI)

Resources

 * Persistent Objects
 * Object-Oriented Databases

Related links

 * MIT Registry website
 * Brickit local Biobrick registry