Synthetic Biology

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Synthetic Biology is
A) the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and
B) the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes.

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Community news

• Registration for the Second International Conference on Synthetic Biology (SB2.0) is open.
• Beachhead has a market analysis for synthetic biology: Synthetic Biology, A New Paradigm for Biological Discovery
• NY Times has an article on Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service.
• Ham Smith's group reports in PNAS on the essential genes of a minimal bacterium.
• The Scientist has an article on Is this life?. Check out the links to opinions on artificial life and the definition of synthetic biology from Endy, Venter, Keasling, Church, Noireaux, Holt, and Blattner.
• Graduate Program and Open Faculty Positions pages started. See Resources section below.

Community news archive

Discussions Applications Abstraction hierarchy Semantic web ontology Error detection & correction in replicating machines Publishing Standardization Synthetic Society	Resources Mailing lists Conferences LBL's Synthetic Biology Lecture Series archive Documents Graduate Programs Faculty Positions Online tools Press articles Recent Synthetic Biology papers: PubMed, Cite-U-Like Related links
Initiatives The BioBricks Foundation OpenWetWare Registry of Standard Biological Parts Synthetic Genomics Study	Projects BioBricks (help wanted!) Engineering the Host/System Interface Rebuilding T7 SortoStat TABASCO
Outreach Information About us FAQ Competitions iGEM 2004 Synthetic Biology Competition Courses BE.109 (MIT) BE.180 (MIT) Implications and Applications of Synthetic Biology (UC Berkeley) MIT IAP 2003 and IAP 2004 projects	Contributors See the list of members. Labs Ellington Lab Endy Lab Keasling Lab Knight Lab Silver Lab Teams 2005 iGEM MIT team

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