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Team:SUSTC-Shenzhen-A/Biosearch Update
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Projects
Our projects include Biosearch and Biodesign. Biosearch is an iPhone app which substantially increases the efficiency of searching biobricks in partsregistry.org. Biodesign is a graphics editing application specific to synthetic biology for both iPhone and iPad. Both of them combine efficiency with portability, showing that a new era of mobile biology researching is coming.
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Future Work
Biosearch BioSearch is just a 2-month old software developed entirely by a group of passionate undergraduate novices from SUSTC who dare to challenge the unchallengeable. During the past 2 months, we are making every effort to optimize it incessantly. BioSearch still has a long way to go. With careful analysis and prudent evaluation of our application, here we make a list of improvements waiting to be implemented in next version. Enable BioSearch to support history view function If achieved, BioSearch will be even better than a web explorer. Establish discussion zone on our BioSearchSince the discussion zone on Partsregistry rarely has been visited. In order to promote academic communication between iGEM participants and synthetic biologists, we believe a discussion zone on mobile platform will be more popular and more convenient. That involves the management of discussion record on web server that might be achieved in the future. Manually/Automatically update database from PartsregistrySince the discussion zone on Partsregistry rarely has been visited. In order to promote academic communication between iGEM participants and synthetic biologists, we believe a discussion zone on mobile platform will be more popular and more convenient. That involves the management of discussion record on web server that might be achieved in the future. Develop an iPad versionTo better satisfy the need of increasing iPad user. Combine BioSearch with our ongoing second project BioDesignWe expect to import data from BioSearch to BioDesign to do biochemical reaction simulation. Then BioSearch will be even stronger and comprehensive. Introduce rating function to Bio SearchWe hope users could vote for their favorite biobrick as an encouragement to its author.
Biodesign Our second project, BioDesign, is a graphics editing application specific to synthetic biology for both iPhone and iPad. BioDesign is based on previous iGEM software named Tinker Cell and was elaborately improved to adapt to mobile platform. It provides hundreds of biobrick icons as well as lots of fancy functions including dragging graphics, drawing curves and automatically connecting figures with corresponding arrows. With BioSearch, users can draw biochemical reaction schematics anywhere they want and share their drawings with friends. BioDesign will be available online very soon! |
