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SBOL Developers meet for 6th SBOL Workshop

posted Jan 14, 2012 8:12 PM by Michal Galdzicki   [ updated Feb 22, 2012 12:30 PM by Ernst Oberortner ]

January 5-6, 2012
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Outcomes of the 6th SBOL Workshop, Seattle 2012
- Demonstrated successful exchange of SBOL v1.0.0 data using libSBOLxml
- Received feedback on use of SBOL visual
- Needed is a statement of values of SBOL community
- Recommended a single serialization
- Nominated 2 additional SBOL editors, for 5 editors total
- Elected Herbert Sauro as chair of SBOL
- Recommended to establish extension working groups
- Established centralized test case management

Deadlines agreed to:
- Specification revisions due Friday
1/27/2012
- Java library and XSD due in 1 month
- Call for SBOL v1.1.0 ratification vote - Mon 1/30/2012 following release of final pdf on 1/27/12


Thirty-three SBOL developers met at the University of Washington, Seattle to discuss the development of SBOL extensions. The workshop was attended by U.S. and U.K. academic researchers as well as industry representatives.

Allan Kuchinsky (Agilent Technologies) Cesar Rodriguez (Genome Compiler) Chris Myers (University of Utah)
Darren Platt (Amyris Biotechnologies) Jackie Quinn (Harvard University) Nicholas Roehner (University of Utah)
Carlos Olguin (Autodesk) Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial College London) Daniel Cook (University of Washington)
Jake Beal (BBN Technologies) Richard Kitney (Imperial College London) Deepak Chandran (University of Washington)
Marc Juul Christoffersen (BIOFAB) Raik Grünberg (University of Montreal) Jeff Johnson (University of Washington)
Cassie Huang (Boston University) Yizhi (Patrick) Cai (Johns Hopkins) John Gennari (University of Washington)
Doug Densmore (Boston University) Sridhar Ranganathan (Life Technologies) Kyung Kim (University of Washington)
Ernst Oberortner (Boston University) Anil Wipat (Newcastle University) Wilbert Copeland (University of Washington)
Swapnil Bhatia (Boston University) Goksel Misirli (Newcastle University) Michal Galdzicki (University of Washington)
Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia) Matthew Pocock (Newcastle University) Herbert Sauro (University of Washington)
Alan Villalobos (DNA2.0) Drew Endy (Stanford University & BIOFAB) Mandy Wilson (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)


BBF RFC 84: SBOL v1.0.0 Released

posted Oct 5, 2011 2:53 PM by Michal Galdzicki   [ updated Oct 5, 2011 2:55 PM ]

The draft specification of SBOL 1.0.0 is available for public comment. We define: 
1. the vocabulary, a set of preferred terms and 
2. the core data model, a common computational representation,
to enable the electronic exchange of information describing DNA components used in synthetic biology.

DOI 1721.1/66172
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/66172
Add your comments to the RFC here.

Once the draft is finalized in December 2011 we will begin to start considering extensions to SBOL which is where it gets much more exciting.

BBSRC Synthetic Biology Workshop

posted Jul 20, 2011 6:29 AM by Herbert Sauro   [ updated Jul 20, 2011 6:53 AM by Michal Galdzicki ]

The UK BBSRC recently held a workshop in Newcastle on standards in synthetic biology. Organized by Neil Wipat and Jen Hallinan, details of the workshop were recorded by Allyson Lister and can be found at her blog.

SBOL Editors

posted Jun 23, 2011 5:13 PM by Herbert Sauro   [ updated Jul 7, 2011 4:00 PM by Michal Galdzicki ]

8 June, 2011 (San Diego)
We are pleased to announce the appointment of the following individuals as SBOL editors 

Michal Galdzicki (UW) 
Cesar Rodriguez (BIOFAB) 
Mandy Wilson (VBI)

Standard Biological Parts Knowledgebase (SBPkb)

posted Sep 3, 2010 6:04 PM by Michal Galdzicki   [ updated Oct 17, 2011 12:42 PM by Michal Galdzicki ]

24 February, 2011 (Seattle)

Our initial version of the SBPkb is now online. The knowledgebase of standard biological parts from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts at MIT. See example queries.

Welcome

posted Jun 8, 2010 9:58 AM by Michal Galdzicki   [ updated Jun 8, 2010 10:02 AM by Michal Galdzicki ]

Welcome to SBOLstandard.org!
We are working towards the definition of open information exchange standards for the synthetic biology community.  Our goal is to create the tools necessary to allow data to flow between software applications for synthetic biologists. I look forward to seeing many of you at this years IWBDA in Anaheim, CA
mike

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