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 …
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 …
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 …
[OVERVIEW] My BioCAD tools
Design: GenoCAD – Rule-based genetic design tools user-friendly and Domain Specific Language M. Galdzicki, K. P. Clancy, E. Oberortner, M. Pocock, J. Y. Quinn, C. a Rodriguez, N. Roehner, M. L. Wilson, L. Adam, J. C. Anderson, B. a Bartley, J. Beal, D. Chandran, J. Chen, D. Densmore, D. Endy, R. Grünberg, J. Hallinan, N. …
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.
GenoTHREAT/GenoGUARD goes open source
GenoTHREAT is now open source (find it on Source Forge). The press release: BLACKSBURG, Va., March 21, 2011 – A software package designed to minimize the potential risks of synthetic biology for the nation’s defense and security is now available to the gene synthesis industry and synthetic biology community in an open-source format. Virginia Tech …