title: Owl: electronic datasheet generator.
abstract: Owl ( www.owlcad.org ) is a biodesign automation tool that generates electronic datasheets for synthetic biological parts using common formatting. Data can be retrieved automatically from existing repositories and modified in the Owl user interface (UI). Owl uses the data to generate an HTML page with standard typesetting that can be saved as a PDF file. Here we present the Owl software tool in its alpha version, its current UI, its description of input data for generating a datasheet, its example datasheets, and the vision of the tool's role in biodesign automation.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University , Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
authors.forename: Evan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Appleton
authors.forename: Jenhan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: F Carter
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Wheatley
authors.forename: Devina H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Lozanoski
authors.forename: Pooja D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Jake A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Awtry
authors.forename: Shawn S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Traci L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Haddock
authors.forename: Douglas M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Densmore
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D012984:Software; D058615:Synthetic Biology / Q000379:methods*