Project Description

For long designs in synthetic biology has been hindered by the lack of logical methods; on the contrary, many mature and useful principles have been applied to engineering disciplines. These principles are promising guidelines in pushing forward the field of synthetic biology. However, it is hard for synthetic biologists to master both experimental techniques and engineering methods.

Our project aims at realizing the potential of computer-aided design in synthetic biology. According to their needs, users define the functions of a system, and then use our software to find the functional component for assembly. The software makes use of the ordinary differential equations to connect each component, leading step by step to a synthetic system with the defined function.

To this end, we base our software on the analysis of existing devices and systems. Utilization of ordinary differential equations helps to resolve the existing design into basic units of different levels (i.e., devices or systems). Now we can endow the original system with new functions using this basic units.