Appleton Evan, Tao Jenhan, Wheatley F Carter, Desai Devina H, Lozanoski Thomas M, Shah Pooja D, Awtry Jake A, Jin Shawn S, Haddock Traci L, Densmore Douglas M
Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University , Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States.
ACS Synth Biol. 2014 Dec 19;3(12):966-8. doi: 10.1021/sb500053j.
Owl ( www.owlcad.org ) is a biodesign automation tool that generates electronic datasheets for synthetic biological parts using common formatting. Data can be retrieved automatically from existing repositories and modified in the Owl user interface (UI). Owl uses the data to generate an HTML page with standard typesetting that can be saved as a PDF file. Here we present the Owl software tool in its alpha version, its current UI, its description of input data for generating a datasheet, its example datasheets, and the vision of the tool's role in biodesign automation.
