Category: Biosecurity

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GENOTHREAT

Description at http://2010.igem.org/Team:VT-ENSIMAG/Genothreat Paper Adam, L., Kozar, M., Letort, G., Mirat, O., Srivastava, A., Stewart, T., Wilson, M.L., Peccoud, J. (2011). Strengths and limitations of the federal guidance on synthetic DNA. Nature Biotechnology. Code https://sourceforge.net/projects/genoguard/

iGEM team helps prevent rogue use of synthetic biology

The team of students I am advising for iGEM 2010, VT-ENSIMAG biosecurity, is featured in this press release. They are working on implementing and characterizing the federal guidance on synthetic genomics and on building a corresponding software called GenoTHREAT. Learn more in BioTechniques and on Genomeweb.