The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) provides a community standard for communicating designs in synthetic biology

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 545-550

  Galdzicki, Michal ^a   Clancy, Kevin P ^b   Oberortner, Ernst ^c   Pocock, Matthew ^d   Quinn, Jacqueline Y ^e   Rodriguez, Cesar A ^e   Roehner, Nicholas ^f   Wilson, Mandy L ^g   Adam, Laura ^g   Anderson, J Christopher ^h   Bartley, Bryan A ⁱ   Beal, Jacob ^j   Chandran, Deepak ^e   Chen, Joanna ^k   Densmore, Douglas ^c   Endy, Drew ^l   Grünberg, Raik ^m   Hallinan, Jennifer ^d   Hillson, Nathan J ^k   Johnson, Jeffrey D ⁿ   Kuchinsky, Allan ^o   Lux, Matthew ^g   Misirli, Goksel ^d   Peccoud, Jean ^g   Plahar, Hector A ^k   Sirin, Evren ^p   Stan, Guy Bart ^q   Villalobos, Alan ^r   Wipat, Anil ^d   Gennari, John H ^a   Myers, Chris J ^f   Sauro, Herbert M ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Life Technologies   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e AUTODESK RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^g VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

ⁱ University of Washington   (United States)

^j BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^k JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l Stanford University   (United States)

^m INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^p Clark and Parsia   (United States)

^q IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r DNA20 Inc   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN;

COMMERCIAL SERVICES; COMMUNITY STANDARDS; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY;

ADOPTION; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SYNTHESIS; GOVERNMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY OPEN LANGUAGE; WORKFLOW;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONALITY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84902159136     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2891     Document Type: Review

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