IGEM:MIT/2005/Endy Lecture 2.0: Abstraction
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Endy Lecture 2.0
Abstraction
06/08/2005
Standards
- Cells
- Parts
- Assembly
Decoupling
- Design/build – manage different projects to solve one problem
Abstraction
- Manage complexity
- Hide information
- e.g. Gerry Sussman’s example of magnetic field of wire upon coiling.
Abstraction Hierarchy
- 0.Chassis - cell in which the system resides
- 1.Systems – combination of devices that does something
- 2.Devices – combination of parts that does something
- 3.Parts – piece of DNA that does something, basic biological function
- 4.DNA – genetic material