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<th scope="col">As synthetic biology continues to expand, researchers are producing a greater variety of novel and innovative genetic circuits. This research revolves around a standard design-build-test cycle that defines the timeline of a project from its conception. The design and assembly of constructs depends on a thorough understanding of their individual components, making thorough part characterization data essential. The fact that there is currently little standardization in DBT workflows and poorly documented standard parts libraries represents an increasingly significant stymying factor to the growth of the field, especially as more laboratories continue to share resources and data. We seek to strengthen the traditional design-build-test cycle fundamental to synthetic biology with a formalized workflow defined by bio-design automation software tools and built upon a thoroughly characterized library of parts.</th> | <th scope="col">As synthetic biology continues to expand, researchers are producing a greater variety of novel and innovative genetic circuits. This research revolves around a standard design-build-test cycle that defines the timeline of a project from its conception. The design and assembly of constructs depends on a thorough understanding of their individual components, making thorough part characterization data essential. The fact that there is currently little standardization in DBT workflows and poorly documented standard parts libraries represents an increasingly significant stymying factor to the growth of the field, especially as more laboratories continue to share resources and data. We seek to strengthen the traditional design-build-test cycle fundamental to synthetic biology with a formalized workflow defined by bio-design automation software tools and built upon a thoroughly characterized library of parts.</th> | ||
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| As synthetic biology continues to expand, researchers are producing a greater variety of novel and innovative genetic circuits. This research revolves around a standard design-build-test cycle that defines the timeline of a project from its conception. The design and assembly of constructs depends on a thorough understanding of their individual components, making thorough part characterization data essential. The fact that there is currently little standardization in DBT workflows and poorly documented standard parts libraries represents an increasingly significant stymying factor to the growth of the field, especially as more laboratories continue to share resources and data. We seek to strengthen the traditional design-build-test cycle fundamental to synthetic biology with a formalized workflow defined by bio-design automation software tools and built upon a thoroughly characterized library of parts. |  |
Motivation and BackgroundWe will complete a library of basic parts currently composed of existing ribosomal binding sites and terminators from the CIDAR Lab by adding a series of tandem promoters, fusion proteins, and vector backbones. These parts will will then be cloned using the MoClo assembly method in multiplexing reactions to create a library of transcriptional units. Data will be gathered for these TUs using flow cytometry in conjunction with the TASBE Tools developed at BBN Technologies to characterize all the parts in our library. The TASBE Tools allow for calibrated measurement of gene expression in absolute units of fluorescence, and will allow for effectively designing multi-TU genetic circuits. We hypothesize that guiding the design and construction of complex circuits with our characterization data and workflow will streamline the traditional design-build-test cycle and aid in a more efficient process for the assembly of novel devices. As a measurement team, we will also use our flow cytometer and the TASBE Tools to enhance the documentation of existing Registry parts. We will contribute our entire basic parts and TU libraries to the Registry to enable other synthetic biology groups to rely on well-characterized parts and methods for their research. |
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