Synbio

From Biohack

What is synthetic biology (hereafter, synbio)? According to Drew Endy over at MIT, synthetic biology is genetic engineering (PCR, oligonucleotides, and sequencing) plus abstraction, standardization, and automated DNA synthesis.

Contents 1 Videos 1.1 Drew Endy - Informal - Broad overview 1.2 Drew Endy - Introduction to Bioengineering 1.3 IGEM & Brown University 1.4 IGEM 2007 Plotter @ Calgary 1.5 CSF iGEM 2007 Finalist Announcement 2 See also

Videos

Maybe the iGEM stuff should be moved on to its own page.

Drew Endy - Informal - Broad overview

Drew Endy - Introduction to Bioengineering

The video may only work here.

IGEM & Brown University

IGEM 2007 Plotter @ Calgary

CSF iGEM 2007 Finalist Announcement

See also

• Syntheticbiology.org Join this mailing list (it's worth it).
• Internationally Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (see iGEM)
• The BioBricks Foundation (see biobricks)
• Registry of Standard Biological Parts
• List of synthetic biology projects