SBLE 2013 - Workshop on the Interface between Synthetic Biology and Language Engineering

Jean Peccoud, Virginia Tech, USA
Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA
Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline focused on the design of synthetic DNA molecules that implement user-defined behaviors such as oscillations or Boolean functions. In this engineering perspective, it is attractive to regard synthetic DNA as biological programs. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together language designers and synthetic biologists with the goal of analyzing the different programming paradigms that have been or could be explored to write these biological programs more effectively. Two main approaches have been proposed so far. Several research groups are developing domain-specific languages that compile specifications into DNA sequences that meet these specifications. Another approach considers that DNA should be the programming language and focuses on defining domain-specific languages in DNA and developing tools to translate DNA sequences into mathematical models of the behavior they encode.
Urlhttp://planet-sl.org/sble-at-sle2013/