Key people: Uma Mahesh Rao (Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad), Travancore Analytics, Trivandrum, Umesh P (Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum) Summary: Genome Designer (GD) is an Open Source and web based synthetic biology workbench for ground up construction, assembly and modeling of genome parts, devices and systems. The genome designer platform will help user design genome-sequence-model of metabolic pathways, regulatory networks, transcriptional cascades and so on. Using GD it will be easy to design Biobricks, perform sequence edits, locate optimum parts in the genome database inventory and assemble final design for synthesis. Genome Designer workbench will provide an integrated design environment over a web browser. This will include a rich graphical design tool built in Java and GWT, a backend database and interface to external databases, making it a comprehensive, extensible 'design |