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BioPartsBuilder: a synthetic biology tool for combinatorial assembly of biological parts.

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Combinatorial assembly of DNA elements is an efficient method for building large-scale synthetic pathways from standardized, reusable components. These methods are particularly useful because they enable assembly of multiple DNA fragments in one reaction, at the cost of requiring that each fragment satisfies design constraints. We developed BioPartsBuilder as a biologist-friendly web tool to design biological parts that are compatible with DNA combinatorial assembly methods, such as Golden Gate and related methods. It retrieves biological sequences, enforces compliance with assembly design standards and provides a fabrication plan for each fragment.

Availability and implementation

BioPartsBuilder is accessible at http://public.biopartsbuilder.org and an Amazon Web Services image is available from the AWS Market Place (AMI ID: ami-508acf38). Source code is released under the MIT license, and available for download at https://github.com/baderzone/biopartsbuilder

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joel.bader@jhu.edu

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Yang K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803390 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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BioPartsBuilder: a synthetic biology tool for combinatorial assembly of biological parts.

Yang Kun K Stracquadanio Giovanni G Luo Jingchuan J Boeke Jef D JD Bader Joel S JS

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20151114 6

<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Combinatorial assembly of DNA elements is an efficient method for building large-scale synthetic pathways from standardized, reusable components. These methods are particularly useful because they enable assembly of multiple DNA fragments in one reaction, at the cost of requiring that each fragment satisfies design constraints. We developed BioPartsBuilder as a biologist-friendly web tool to design biological parts that are compatible with DNA combinatorial assembly methods, s ...[more]

PMID: 26568632

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BioPartsBuilder: a synthetic biology tool for combinatorial assembly of biological parts.

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BioPartsBuilder: a synthetic biology tool for combinatorial assembly of biological parts.

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