<![CDATA[BOL: Programming language to build synthetic DNA]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5191/programming-language-to-build-synthetic-dna? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5191/programming-language-to-build-synthetic-dna Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:37:24 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5191/programming-language-to-build-synthetic-dna <![CDATA[Programming language to build synthetic DNA]]> A team led by Georg Seelig (http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~seelig/index.html) at University of Washington has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars, robots and other devices. In medicine, such networks could serve as “smart” drug deliverers or disease detectors at the cellular level.

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http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2013.189.html

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/09/30/uw-engineers-invent-programming-language-to-build-synthetic-dna/

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