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Group picture In August 2009
Front: Julie Marchand, Sarah Zheng, David Ball, Jean Peccoud.
Back: Patrick Cai, Laura Adam, Matt Lux.
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The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Synthetic Biology group was created on May 1st, 2006. Combining experimental and computational efforts,
we are developing computer languages to represent DNA sequences, software and
protocols to formalize the function of genetic parts, and an adaptive live cell
imaging platform to estimate the parameters of gene network models. Now that
our technology is ready for use in large scale applications, we have started
looking at the possibility of redesigning the yeast genome to better understand
how genome structure codes for complex phenotypes like control of the cell
cycle. Our transdisciplinary research program at the interface between biology,
computer science, and physics sheds a new light on the relationship between
genotype and phenotype, a fundamental question in genetics.
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Recent Announcements
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Neither models nor miracles: a look at synthetic biology
An excellent critical review of 10 years of systems and synthetic biology. It is really a very insightful write up. Read the article...
Posted Aug 27, 2010 11:29 AM by Jean Peccoud
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COPASI released open source
Virginia Tech's Virginia Bioinformatics Institute this
week announced that future versions of its Complex Pathway Simulator, or
COPASI, software package will be released this fall under the Artistic 2 ...
Posted Aug 21, 2010 8:41 AM by Jean Peccoud
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NSF Award for developing GenoTHREAT, a biosecurity screening software
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech is awarded a
grant to develop GenoTHREAT, a software application to screen DNA
sequences ordered from gene synthesis companies for the possible
presence ...
Posted Aug 21, 2010 8:37 AM by Jean Peccoud
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VT-ENSIMAG Biosecurity Team featured in a BioInform Story
The work of the VT-ENSIMAG Biosecurity team is featured in a story published by BioInform. Read the story here...
Posted Jul 23, 2010 12:54 PM by Jean Peccoud
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Virginia Tech ENSIMAG Biosecurity Team
A team of students from ENSIMAG, an engineering school in Grenoble,
France, and Virginia Tech is using bioinformatics to implement federal
guidance on synthetic genomics. The students’ work will help ...
Posted Jul 23, 2010 12:39 PM by Jean Peccoud
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