Standards and Specifications in Synthetic Biology Workshop
When: April 26-27, 2008
Location: Talaris Conference Center, Seattle, Washington
The objective of the workshop is to bring together thirty or so of the most prominent researchers in this field and to focus on issues pertaining to how parts might be specified, organized and constructed.
The workshop will be discussion oriented and showcase work from several groups specifically involved in this area. Participants may also present posters. The outcome of the workshop will be a report circulated to the participants for comment which will summarize the workshop’s findings. This report will, with the agreement of the participants, be then made available in IET Synthetic Biology.
The following list includes a range of topics that will be presented and discussed:
- Biological part specification
- Characterizing parts, devices, and systems
- Experimental standards
- Organizing, storing, and sharing biological parts
- Computer readable formats for parts
- Examples of previous standardization efforts (e.g. SBML, CellML)
- Model standardization
- Software tools for synthetic biology
- Simulation approaches
This workshop is funded by the Microsoft Computational Challenges in Synthetic Biology Initiative.
