title: SynBioWave--a real-time communication platform for molecular and synthetic biology.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Synthetic Biology is advanced by many users and relies on the assembly of genetic elements to devices, systems and finally genomes. SynBioWave is a software suite that enables multiple distributed users to analyze and construct genetic parts in real-time collaboration. It builds on Google Wave and provides an extensible robot-robot-user communication framework, a menu driven user interface, biological data handling including DAS and an internal database communication. We demonstrate its use by implementing robots for gene-data retrieval, manipulation and display. The initial development of SynBioWave demonstrates the power of the underlying Google Wave protocol for Synthetic Biology and lays the foundation for continuous and user-friendly extensions. Specialized wave-robots with a manageable set of capabilities will divide and conquer the complex task of creating a genome in silico.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The robot is available at SynBioWave@appspot.com, the source code at http://synbiowave.sourceforge.net
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Freiburg.
authors.forename: Paul R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Staab
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walossek
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nellessen
authors.forename: Raik
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grünberg
authors.forename: Katja M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Arndt
authors.forename: Kristian M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016678:Genome; D012984:Software; D058615:Synthetic Biology