The BioBricks Foundation:Standards/Technical/2009 biobrick data exchange workshop

Workshop for BioBrick data exchange

held:

The workshop is planned as a satellite to the First International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation IWBDA.

Objective

We will try to finalize a consensus draft for a protocol that facilitates the exchange and publication of BioBrick-related data. The draft will be submitted as RFC and we will try to convince the relevant journals to adopt it as a recommendation.

tentative Agenda (not confirmed)

Day 1

• Welcome + Objectives of the workshop
• Existing landscape:
  • existing DNA sequence standards + their associated tools (database / analysis)
  • Existing and relevant ontologies + missing ones to support DNA part description
  • The Minimum Information Required effort
• Status of BioBrick exchange
  • Update on PoBoL (Provisional BioBrick Language)
  • Update on ?
• Lunch
• Brainstorming sessions I (in smaller groups for 1h):
  • BioBrick schema for experimentalists (BioBrick, BioBrick relations, Devices)
  • Description for CAD/modelling tools ()
• Reporting on brainstorming sessions
• BioBrick data exchange architecture
• Dinner

Day 2

• Work in 2 separate groups:
  • Documentation working group (RFCs):
    • Information Required for a BioBrick
    • Information Required for a Device
    • RDF decription
  • Implementation working group:
    • Tools required to support the adoption of a Standard Description of a Biobrick.
    • draft python/java API
    • TinkerCell/BrickIt/Clotho integration
• Reporting on working sessions (everyone)
• Draft of a paper
• Conclusion + what's next