It turns out that DNA can also store pretty much any information that a computer could, only it can do it for hundreds of thousands of years, and in a more efficient way. If all the information in the world was stored into DNA, it would only take the equivalent size of a shoebox (filled with DNA) to do it.

But wait... this isn’t biological... See more

Languages

You can tell the field has been developing quite a lot when you know that we now have more than one programming language, just to design biological circuits.

Systems Biology Markup Language ( SBML ): it’s a representation format for communicating and storing computational models of biological processes. It’s free and open standard. It can... See more

Indeed, synthetic biology is built upon computing logic . So in order to understand its principles, we need to know how this way of thinking relates to the apparently messy life.

Some of the various disciplines involved are biotechnology, systems biology, biophysics, chemical and biological engineering, electrical and computer engineering, control engineering, and evolutionary biology.