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Towards an Aspect-Oriented Design and Modelling Framework for Synthetic Biology.


ABSTRACT: Work on synthetic biology has largely used a component-based metaphor for system construction. While this paradigm has been successful for the construction of numerous systems, the incorporation of contextual design issues-either compositional, host or environmental-will be key to realising more complex applications. Here, we present a design framework that radically steps away from a purely parts-based paradigm by using aspect-oriented software engineering concepts. We believe that the notion of concerns is a powerful and biologically credible way of thinking about system synthesis. By adopting this approach, we can separate core concerns, which represent modular aims of the design, from cross-cutting concerns, which represent system-wide attributes. The explicit handling of cross-cutting concerns allows for contextual information to enter the design process in a modular way. As a proof-of-principle, we implemented the aspect-oriented approach in the Python tool, SynBioWeaver, which enables the combination, or weaving, of core and cross-cutting concerns. The power and flexibility of this framework is demonstrated through a number of examples covering the inclusion of part context, combining circuit designs in a context dependent manner, and the generation of rule, logic and reaction models from synthetic circuit designs.

SUBMITTER: Boeing P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6296438 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Towards an Aspect-Oriented Design and Modelling Framework for Synthetic Biology.

Boeing Philipp P   Leon Miriam M   Nesbeth Darren N DN   Finkelstein Anthony A   Barnes Chris P CP  

Processes (Basel, Switzerland) 20180901 9


Work on synthetic biology has largely used a component-based metaphor for system construction. While this paradigm has been successful for the construction of numerous systems, the incorporation of contextual design issues-either compositional, host or environmental-will be key to realising more complex applications. Here, we present a design framework that radically steps away from a purely parts-based paradigm by using aspect-oriented software engineering concepts. We believe that the notion o  ...[more]

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