Team:EPFL/Software

iGEM EPFL 2016

Build your bioware? is simple

Engineer your cells with biological circuits is incredible, but also very difficult. Intelligene is part of a collection of utilities that allow you to do it quickly and easily.


Synthetic genetic networks are being used more and more frequently in synthetic biology due to their ability to give cells powerful new capabilities while using many of the techniques already common to cell cloning, such as assembly strategies and transformation. Designing the biological organization these circuits, which are often built into plasmid vectors, can be a real challenge. Cello, published in Nature on March 31st, 2016, is a program which allows users to combine data of the desired circuit and data about the host system to generate plasmids containing the fully functional circuits. Over the summer, we developed a suite of software tools meant to increase the user-friendliness, open-source nature, and power of Cello. This required modifying Cello in multiple ways. Firstly, we added an intuitive user interface to Cello to design circuits, eliminating the need for users to understand how to code in Verilog. Secondly, we made Cello accept external inputs, so it could download biological parts from a database. Thirdly, we created and published this database, complete with a variety of features to allow users to interact with the database. Past wiki freeze, we plan to continue working on integration of the database with Cello to allow the seamless transfer of information, and the correct interpretation of the available data.

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Cello

User interface

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Scaffold compatibility

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Database

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Database

Parts

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User Interface

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API

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