EBIOSEC, INC
I am a cofounder of EBIOSEC, INC. More information can be found at ebiosec.com We work on ebioome.
information-biosecurity.org
http://information-biosecurity.org/ is a website where I compile publications related to biosecurity in the digital world. This is also where the twitter data analysis will available.
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 …
Low-cost, modular, multi-strain diagnostic (ongoing)
This is the application part of the project I am finishing. We engineered yeast to induce growth arrest using a number of genes/inducers that we then characterized. We then used them as a diagnostic tool. We used nonlinear differential equations. We model our co-culture experiments and made predictions. We used a flow cytometer to collect …
Synthetic control of yeast culture growth rates (ongoing)
I am finishing a project started as a postdoc in the Klavins Lab at UW with Orlando de Lange and Alberto Carignano that we are about to publish. We engineered yeast to induce growth arrest using a number of genes/inducers that we then characterized. We then used it in a cool application. I work both …
Design of Languages for Systems and Synthetic Biology
Context We propose to encompass context-dependent genomic information and mathematical models in a logical and structured fashion through the use of attribute grammars. Attribute Grammars (AG) provide means to compute a mathematical model (possibly encoding phenotypic traits) from a genetic construct. AGs are a framework for biological Domain Specifi c Languages (DSLs) that, unlike current formalisms …
Research on Language and Biology
The theory: Formal language and Genetic This is related to the work I have done at Peccoud’s synthetic biology lab from 2008 to 2013: Formal languages and DNA molecules Design of Languages for Systems and Synthetic Biology Biological Languages to Design Natural Genomes [Slides] Formal languages to map Genotype to Phenotype in Natural Genomes. Application: …
Information Biosecurity: context
Preventing bioterrorism requires innovative solutionsspecific to the nature of the threat. Biotechnology is not like nuclear technology. Soon, tens of thousands of laboratories worldwide will be operating in a multi-billion-dollar industry. Even students working in small laboratories will be able to carry out gene manipulation. The approach to fighting the abuse of biotechnology for terrorist purposes …