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Parts Repository

Aim:

To develop a system that will define the kinds of parts that make up a biological circuit and their behaviour.

Computers do not know any biology. Many of the other projects involve manipulating data without any need to understand its biological meaning. This module is responsible for capturing biological knowledge and how it relates to that data. So the parts that make up a biological system need to be described in a computationally accessible manner. This system will model the parts that make up the biological circuits. Efforts to define parts are already underway in the BioBricks community, and this project will build upon these.

Objectives:

to develop a database that stores clear definitions of the components of a genetic circuit, including:
- sequences
- important domains
- abstract model(s)
- the ontology of component types
- provenance back to e.g. BioBrick of origin
to develop an API that will provide access to the repository in a standard, easily usable manner