title: Gener: a minimal programming module for chemical controllers based on DNA strand displacement.
abstract: : Gener is a development module for programming chemical controllers based on DNA strand displacement. Gener is developed with the aim of providing a simple interface that minimizes the opportunities for programming errors: Gener allows the user to test the computations of the DNA programs based on a simple two-domain strand displacement algebra, the minimal available so far. The tool allows the user to perform stepwise computations with respect to the rules of the algebra as well as exhaustive search of the computation space with different options for exploration and visualization. Gener can be used in combination with existing tools, and in particular, its programs can be exported to Microsoft Research's DSD tool as well as to LaTeX.
  
  
  METHODS
  Gener is available for download at the Cosbi website at http://www.cosbi.eu/research/prototypes/gener as a windows executable that can be run on Mac OS X and Linux by using Mono.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  ozan@cosbi.eu.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, The Microsoft Research-University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology.
authors.forename: Ozan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kahramanoğulları
authors.affiliation: Microsoft Research Cambridge and Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cardelli
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D039301:Computers, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D004261:DNA Replication; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011381:Programming Languages; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D004247:DNA