Robert Sidney Cox, Curtis Madsen, James Alastair McLaughlin, Tramy Nguyen, Nicholas Roehner, Bryan Bartley, Jacob Beal, Michael Bissell, Kiri Choi, Kevin Clancy, Raik Grünberg, Chris Macklin, Goksel Misirli, Ernst Oberortner, Matthew Pocock, Meher Samineni, Michael Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Zach Zundel, John H Gennari, Chris Myers, Herbert Sauro, Anil Wipat
Synthetic biology builds upon the techniques and successes of genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. The field still faces substantial challenges, including long development times, high rates of failure, and poor reproducibility. One method to ameliorate these problems would be to improve the exchange of information about designed systems between laboratories. The synthetic biology open language (SBOL) has been developed as a standard to support the specification and exchange of biological design information in synthetic biology, filling a need not satisfied by other pre-existing standards...
April 2, 2018: Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics