title: VisBOL: Web-Based Tools for Synthetic Biology Design Visualization.
abstract: VisBOL is a Web-based application that allows the rendering of genetic circuit designs, enabling synthetic biologists to visually convey designs in SBOL visual format. VisBOL designs can be exported to formats including PNG and SVG images to be embedded in Web pages, presentations and publications. The VisBOL tool enables the automated generation of visualizations from designs specified using the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) version 2.0, as well as a range of well-known bioinformatics formats including GenBank and Pigeoncad notation. VisBOL is provided both as a user accessible Web site and as an open-source (BSD) JavaScript library that can be used to embed diagrams within other content and software.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University , Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RU, U.K.
authors.forename: James Alastair
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.affiliation: Turing Ate My Hamster Ltd. , Tyne and Wear, NE27 0RT, U.K.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pocock
authors.affiliation: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University , Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RU, U.K.
authors.forename: Göksel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mısırlı
authors.affiliation: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University , Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RU, U.K.
authors.forename: Curtis
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Madsen
authors.affiliation: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University , Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RU, U.K.
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wipat
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D058615:Synthetic Biology / Q000379:methods*
keywords: SBOL Visual; Synthetic Biology Open Language; genetic circuits; synthetic biology; visualization