Synthetic Biology Open Language

{{Short description|Standard for exchange of biological designs}}

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL){{cite web|title=The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)|url=http://sbolstandard.org/}} is a proposed data standard for exchanging synthetic biology designs between software packages.{{cite journal|last1=Galdzicki|first1=Michal|last2=Clancy|first2=Kevin P|last3=Oberortner|first3=Ernst|last4=Pocock|first4=Matthew|last5=Quinn|first5=Jacqueline Y|last6=Rodriguez|first6=Cesar A|last7=Roehner|first7=Nicholas|last8=Wilson|first8=Mandy L|last9=Adam|first9=Laura|last10=Anderson|first10=J Christopher|last11=Bartley|first11=Bryan A|last12=Beal|first12=Jacob|last13=Chandran|first13=Deepak|last14=Chen|first14=Joanna|last15=Densmore|first15=Douglas|last16=Endy|first16=Drew|last17=Grünberg|first17=Raik|last18=Hallinan|first18=Jennifer|last19=Hillson|first19=Nathan J|last20=Johnson|first20=Jeffrey D|last21=Kuchinsky|first21=Allan|last22=Lux|first22=Matthew|last23=Misirli|first23=Goksel|last24=Peccoud|first24=Jean|last25=Plahar|first25=Hector A|last26=Sirin|first26=Evren|last27=Stan|first27=Guy-Bart|last28=Villalobos|first28=Alan|last29=Wipat|first29=Anil|last30=Gennari|first30=John H|last31=Myers|first31=Chris J|last32=Sauro|first32=Herbert M|title=The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) provides a community standard for communicating designs in synthetic biology|journal=Nature Biotechnology|date=6 June 2014|volume=32|issue=6|pages=545–550|doi=10.1038/nbt.2891|pmid=24911500|doi-access=free}} It has been under development by the SBOL Developers Group{{cite web |url=https://sbolstandard.org/development/gov/ |title=Governance {{!}} the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) |website=sbolstandard.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201083024/http://sbolstandard.org/development/gov/ |archive-date=2015-12-01}} since 2008. This group aims to develop the standard in a way that is open and democratic in order to include as many interests as possible and to avoid domination by a single company. The group also aims to develop and improve the design standard over time as the field of synthetic biology reflects this development.

A graphical modeling language called SBOL Visual has also been created to visualize SBOL designs.{{cite journal|last1=Quinn|first1=Jacqueline Y.|last2=Cox|first2=Robert Sidney|last3=Adler|first3=Aaron|last4=Beal|first4=Jacob|last5=Bhatia|first5=Swapnil|last6=Cai|first6=Yizhi|last7=Chen|first7=Joanna|last8=Clancy|first8=Kevin|last9=Galdzicki|first9=Michal|last10=Hillson|first10=Nathan J.|last11=Le Novère|first11=Nicolas|last12=Maheshwari|first12=Akshay J.|last13=McLaughlin|first13=James Alastair|last14=Myers|first14=Chris J.|last15=P|first15=Umesh|last16=Pocock|first16=Matthew|last17=Rodriguez|first17=Cesar|last18=Soldatova|first18=Larisa|last19=Stan|first19=Guy-Bart V.|last20=Swainston|first20=Neil|last21=Wipat|first21=Anil|last22=Sauro|first22=Herbert M.|title=SBOL Visual: A Graphical Language for Genetic Designs|journal=PLOS Biology|date=3 December 2015|volume=13|issue=12|pages=e1002310|doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002310|pmid=26633141|pmc=4669170 |doi-access=free }}File:Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) standard visual symbols.svg, primer binding site, cds, restriction site, etc. ]]