‘Google invites geneticists to upload DNA data to cloud’ http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Google-invites-geneticists-to-upload-DNA-data-to-5325793.php and the PR http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/dnanexus-secures-15-million-series-c-financing-accelerate-commercialization The company DNAnexus (www.dnanexus.com) “DNAnexus is powering the genomics revolution with an enterprise-level solution that combines cloud computing with advanced bioinformatics. The DNAnexus team is made up of experts in software, computational biology, and genetics who are on a mission …
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 …
The iGEM team already got results! Their project on GenoTHREAT is to be pursued: NSF awarded $1,000,000 to further develop the sequence screening software. More details: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1060776
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.