Category: Science Policy

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Twitter and biosecurity|dual-use (ongoing)

This is an ongoing early stage project in which I get data from twitter into a CouchDB. I am building a website to visualize my compiled data with flask. I do some natural language processing for sentiment analysis. One of my goal is to find dual-use topics… My most frequent words so far… I am …

Synthetic Biology Behemoth Aims to Police Its Own Industry

IEEE Spectrum July, 3rd 2018 by Elie Dolgin. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/ethics/synthetic-biology-behemoth-aims-to-police-its-own-industry These algorithmic and machine-learning approaches are what’s needed for biosecurity tools in the industry to move beyond simply matching sequences against known problematic strings of genetic code, says Laura Adam. Adam is cofounder of Ebiosec, a data management platform for synthetic biology, and the developer of GenoTHREAT, an open-source screening tool.

Point of View: A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering

Wintle, B.C. & Boehm, C.R., Rhodes, C., Molloy, J.C., Millett, P., Adam, L.,  et al.., Sutherland, W.J. (2017) A transatlantic perspective on 20 emerging issues in biological engineering. eLife. Advances in biological engineering are likely to have substantial impacts on global society. To explore these potential impacts we ran a horizon scanning exercise to capture …

News coverage GenoTHREAT

Biosecurity for the Age of Redesigned Life.November 8, 2013 by JOHN DANKOSKY. NPR Science Friday (http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/biosecurity-for-the-age-of-redesigned-life/) iGEM Team Developing Biosecurity Software for Synthetic Genomics.Jul 23, 2010 by Uduak Grace Thomas. (https://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/igem-team-developing-biosecurity-software-synthetic-genomics) Bioinformatics used to detect rogue use of synthetic biology. July 19-20, 2010 by Barry Whyte, Virginia Tech (PR). Biotechniques, Science Blog, e! Science News, R&D Mag, Eurekalert, ScienceDaily, …

Scientists need to be proactive to foment international biosecurity.

Runner-up essay for the “Young Scientists” essay contest organized by the Implementation and Support Unit of the Biological Weapon Convention at the United Nations

Strengths and limitations of the federal guidance on synthetic DNA

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.

Formal grammars to protect intellectual properties in synthetic biology.

International Conference on Synthetic Biology at Evry, France, December 15-16, 2010. (invited talk+poster)