The BioBricks Foundation:Standards/Technical/Exchange

Synthetic Biology Data Exchange

This working group is developing standards and technologies for the description of standard biological parts and the exchange (or networking) of part-related data.

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Synthetic Biology Data Exchange Group

Meetings

We keep track of our meetings here: http://www.sbolstandard.org/team/meetings

Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)

SBOL Website: http://www.sbolstandard.org/

SBOL is designed to:

• Allow synthetic biologists and genetic engineers to electronically exchange designs.
• Send and receive genetic designs to and from biofabrication centers.
• Facilitate storage of genetic designs in repositories.
• Embed genetic designs in publications.

Read more about SBOL in the introduction

Find the technical details on the specification page

Development History

2010 May -

The SBOL project moved to its own website http://www.sbolstandard.org

2009 August - November

We have divided the working group into sub-topics, each with their own "Nurturer".

• Application Scenarios -- Deepak Chandran
• Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)
  • Core Data Model -- Raik Gruenberg
  • SBOL Script -- Doug Densmore
    • Eugene (1st pass at a human readable script)
    • Spectacles (visualization environment using SBOL Visual symbols)
  • SBOL Visual - Cesar Rodriguez and Suzie Bartram
  • SBOL Semantic -- Michal Galdzicki
• Data exchange API (programming interfaces) -- Become a Nurturer!

Further Suggestions:

• Part Sequence Annotation -- Tim?

2008 Feb - June

• PoBol: Provisional BioBrick™ Language See BBF RFC 31 (2009) [1]

The document describing the the first round of discussions (February - April) can be found here:

• Old Discussion