Bio-design automation and synbio tools - The Design Automation Conference (DAC), held recently in San Francisco, concentrates on electrical engineering. But there are a lot of parallels between electrical design and the current state of synthetic-biology design. Melanie Swan reports on the design-automation tools that appeared at the First Workshop on Bio-Design Automation that was held on the first day at DAC.
I missed this in June when it first turned up but you can browse BioBrick parts on your iPhone with software from OpenWetWare. It's in the App Store here.
