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	<description>Genetically Engineered Organisms, Systems Biology, and Synthetic Biology from an Engineer&#039;s Viewpoint</description>
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		<title>&#8220;ELISA Redux&#8221; 96-Well Plate Cryptography Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publication GEN is running a contest, with $1,500 plus fancy biotechnology equipment as the prize, for the first one who can decode the cryptographic message hidden in this 96-well plate:

Register on the GEN site to solve the puzzle.  As of today, I haven&#8217;t made much progress in decoding the message, after way too many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Streaming Video to any Bio-lab!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Combining an inexpensive (under $15) USB webcam with free VLC media player software, it is simple to add password-protected internet streaming video for remote users to any lab.  VLC includes the ability to capture from a local webcam, transcode the video data, and stream the video over the web.  It&#8217;s available for OS/X, Unix, Linux, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Bio-lab Automation &#8211; Software for Controlling FIAlab Devices for Microfluidics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perl software to control lab syringe pump and valve device, for biology automation, initial version finished today. Works great.  Next, need to add the network code, it can be controlled remotely and in synchronization with other laboratory devices, including the bio-robot.  This software will be used in the microfluidics project.  The software is also part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software for Biohackers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some open source software collections of biology interest are noted here.  I&#8217;ll update this list as time goes on.  If you would like to have your project listed too, leave a comment with all the fields of the table and I&#8217;ll add your project.  If any of these links do not work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3G Cellphone as Biotech Tool: &#8220;Cellular Phone Enabled Non-Invasive Tissue Classifier&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/360?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent paper in PLoS ONE describes a diagnostic system which uses a common 3G cellphone with bluetooth to assist in point-of-care measurement of tissues, from tissue samples previously taken, with remote data analysis [1].  The hope, of course, is that this could be used for detecting cancer tissue vs. non-cancer tissue.  In general this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with the $100K Robots for Biology Automation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tecan Genesis Workstation 200:  It&#8217;s an industrial benchtop robot for liquid handling with multiple arms for tray handling and pipetting.

The robot&#8217;s operations are complex, so an integrated development environment is used to program it (though biologists wouldn&#8217;t call it an integrated development environment; maybe they&#8217;d call it a scripting application?), with custom graphical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Train the Biology Robot: Have the Machine Read the Protocol and Automate Itself</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/290?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine reading these kinds of instructions and performing such a task for a few hours: &#8220;Resuspend pelleted bacterial cells in 250 µl Buffer P1 and transfer to a micro-centrifuge tube. Ensure that RNase A has been added to Buffer P1. No cell clumps should be visible after resuspension of the pellet. If LyseBlue reagent has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple iPhone 3.0 as next generation Biomedical device</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/268?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s developer preview today, of iPhone 3.0 software, included the interesting news of support for external accessories, either connected through the physical docking connector or through Bluetooth wireless.

A spokesman from Johnson &#38; Johnson announced an iPhone-blood-pressure-monitor accessory, which provides health biometrics and allows the biometrics to be sent over the iPhone&#8217;s network connection as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford University: Programmable Microfluidics (2007) &#8211; Video</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/260?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 3, 2007 lecture by Bill Thies for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Bill Thies provides an overview of microfluidic technologies from a computer science perspective, highlight areas in the which computer science researchers can contribute to this field; he will also describe recent work in developing new architectures, programming languages, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Fold.it, the &#8220;Tetris-On-Steroids&#8221; game that solves protein folding</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/250?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Protein folding&#8221; is what again?
It&#8217;s this: Foldit (curiously, at the web address: &#8220;fold.it&#8221;).  And it&#8217;s fun to play.  Addictive, really.  Check out the picture:

After I had been playing a while, my 8-year old niece came over to my laptop to see what the cute sound-effects were all about.  After a minute of watching, she said:  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Biology for Discovering Protein Function &#8211; as of 2008</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/168?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The vast majority of known proteins have not yet been characterized experimentally, and there is very little that is known about their function.&#8221; [1]
A paper just published (Nov 2008) in PLoS Computational Biology describes the fundamental problem of proteins in biology.  It is &#8220;the dogma&#8221; that the DNA sequence is transcribed and translated to protein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 3 of 5: “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” by James Tisdall</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/114?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous write-ups of Part 1 and Part 2, I traced the Perl code and examples in the first half of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, highlighting different approaches to bioinformatics in Perl.  As I mentioned before, Perl provides many different (and often stylistic) methods to solving a software problem.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;SynBioSS: The Synthetic Biology Modeling Suite&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/80?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SynBioSS (Synthetic Biology Software Suite) is a suite of software for the modeling and simulation of synthetic genetic constructs. SynBioSS utilizes the registry of standard biological parts, a database of kinetic parameters, and both graphical and command-line interfaces to multiscale simulation algorithms.  SynBioSS is available under the GNU General Public License.  &#8212; Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 2 of 5: &#8220;Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics&#8221; by James Tisdall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Part 1 of 5 review of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, left off at Chapter 8, just before Tisdall explains associative arrays, gene expression, FASTA files, genomic databases, and restriction sites.
Tisdall: &#8220;For simplicity, let&#8217;s say you have the names for all the genes in the organism and a number for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 1 of 5: &#8220;Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics&#8221; by James Tisdall</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/15?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a specialized field, Bioinformatics is rather young.  It can be difficult to find universities which teach bioinformatics.  Bioinformatics can refer to many different types of tasks &#8212; from using programs and data without any computer science knowledge, to implementing database or web software, to writing data conversion programs which modify file formats between database [...]]]></description>
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