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Team:UC Berkeley Tools/Development
From 2008.igem.org
Clotho Beta: Future Development
The next release of Clotho after iGEM is planned for a late Spring 2009 release. This will be the official Beta release (the other releases will have been Alpha and iGEM). The main focus of the release will be to fully implement all the features currently in Clotho as well as fix bugs that are found. Clotho testing and deployment will begin with Anderson Lab at UCB and expand to Voigt Lab at UCSF. In addition to general robustness, Clotho Beta should also incorporate a few new features.
New Features
- New design views to supplement the Sequence View and allow easier designing of basic and composite BioBrick parts. This will likely include a 'schematic view' for assembling parts, similar to the one in [http://web.mit.edu/jagoler/www/biojade/overview.html BioJade].
- Ability to interface with devices, including robots that can be used for automated production of parts designed in Clotho. (In the future, this will contain a link to Anderson Lab's Biomek robot.)
Improved Features:
- More database support (systems like [http://brickit.wiki.sourceforge.net/ BrickIt!]). We plan to test this one a wide variety of databases including JBEI's registry.
- Improved Plug-in environment that allows users to add even more expanded functionality to Clotho. This will take the form of more plug in extension points and more fully featured interfaces for the existing ones.
Helping Out In The Lab: Assembly Algorithms
- Using the assembly algorithms, helped
PoBoL: BioBrick Data Sharing Made Easy
PoBoL stands for "Provisional BioBrick Language", and is the name given to a technical standard for BioBrick data in synthetic biology databases. Put simply, our implementation of PoBoL
For more information on the PoBoL standard, check out [http://www.pobol.org/ www.pobol.org]
Increasing Collaboration Through Better Access To Database
Through a combination of PoBoL
