Online Artificial Gene Design

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday February 18, 2006 @09:58AM from the outdated-already dept.

massivefoot writes to tell us New Scientist is reporting that researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have released a new software suite, GeneDesign, that helps to simplify the steps in designing artificial DNA. From the article: "These key steps include translating proteins and amino acids - the building blocks which make proteins - backwards into a DNA sequence. Or the software can manipulate simulated DNA "codons" which can code for an amino acid. DNA codons are made of sets of three nucleotides - the fundamental molecules which link together to form a DNA chain."

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For those who care by xirtap · 2006-02-18 10:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Here is a link to GeneDesign: http://slam.bs.jhmi.edu/gd/
1. Re:For those who care by RDW · 2006-02-18 12:18 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  ...or for serious work, check out EMBOSS, an open source collection of hundreds of molecular biology tools with a range of optional GUIs, including an excellent web interface available at multiple sites.