Team:BU Wellesley Software/Clotho

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Clotho is a software platform for synthetic biologists. Clotho is a nexus. Clotho is the foundation for the automated future of biological engineering. All of these feats are accomplished without Clotho doing anything itself.  At its core, Clotho is a data model and a plugin infrastructure. In other words, Clotho gives gives a vocabulary to describe biological objects and a way for many different types of tools to interact with these biological objects. By itself, Clotho is not a tool. However, the plugin infrastructure allows Clotho to be a rallying points for all sorts of different tools, each fulfilling the exact need of the user. <br>
Clotho is a software platform for synthetic biologists. Clotho is a nexus. Clotho is the foundation for the automated future of biological engineering. All of these feats are accomplished without Clotho doing anything itself.  At its core, Clotho is a data model and a plugin infrastructure. In other words, Clotho gives gives a vocabulary to describe biological objects and a way for many different types of tools to interact with these biological objects. By itself, Clotho is not a tool. However, the plugin infrastructure allows Clotho to be a rallying points for all sorts of different tools, each fulfilling the exact need of the user. <br>
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This summer we built a large variety of tools. We built a tool that designed re-configurable plasmids for studying tuberculosis. We created a software suite for performing automated software assembly. We also made a primer designing tool, Genbank parsing tool, a tool for viewing sequence annotations. And we redesigned the [http://wiki.bu.edu/ece-clotho/index.php/Fabdash_Guide | interface]to make Clotho easier to use and more effective as a tool for researchers.  
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This summer we built a large variety of tools. We built a tool that designed re-configurable plasmids for studying tuberculosis. We created a software suite for performing automated software assembly. We also made a primer designing tool, Genbank parsing tool, a tool for viewing sequence annotations. And we redesigned the <a href="http://wiki.bu.edu/ece-clotho/index.php/Fabdash_Guide">interface</a>to make Clotho easier to use and more effective as a tool for researchers.  
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BU-Wellesley iGEM Team: Meet the Team Members


Clotho

Tool Overview

Clotho is a software platform for synthetic biologists. Clotho is a nexus. Clotho is the foundation for the automated future of biological engineering. All of these feats are accomplished without Clotho doing anything itself. At its core, Clotho is a data model and a plugin infrastructure. In other words, Clotho gives gives a vocabulary to describe biological objects and a way for many different types of tools to interact with these biological objects. By itself, Clotho is not a tool. However, the plugin infrastructure allows Clotho to be a rallying points for all sorts of different tools, each fulfilling the exact need of the user.
This summer we built a large variety of tools. We built a tool that designed re-configurable plasmids for studying tuberculosis. We created a software suite for performing automated software assembly. We also made a primer designing tool, Genbank parsing tool, a tool for viewing sequence annotations. And we redesigned the interfaceto make Clotho easier to use and more effective as a tool for researchers.

Results

Future Work

* More applications * Increased automation, allowing for high level design of DNA constructs