APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Drug development Bioproducts Chemical Engineering BENEFITS: Saves time in developing novel or drop-in molecules using type I PKS Easily identify polyketide synthase (PKS) modules based either on amino acid sequence or on the chemical structure of the cognate polyketide intermediate More reliable construction of functional … [Read more...] about ClusterCAD: Computational Platform for Design of Chimeric Polyketide Synthase (PKS) enzymes 2017-101
SynTrack: DNA Assembly Workflow Management 2017-023
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Management and tracking of DNA synthesis and assembly operations Integration of quality control outcomes and the status of construct deliverables for external users BENEFITS: System with a host of functions to track the DNA build process: Generating Echo pooling instructions based on plate maps Bulk updating of colony or PCR … [Read more...] about SynTrack: DNA Assembly Workflow Management 2017-023
Experiment Data Depot (EDD): Biological Experimental Data Storage and Visualization Web-based Software 2016-186
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biological experiment data storage, sharing, and visualization BENEFITS: Provides a novel and convenient way to store a variety of data types, visualize these data, and export them in a standardized fashion for use with predictive algorithms TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW: Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed the Experiment Data Depot … [Read more...] about Experiment Data Depot (EDD): Biological Experimental Data Storage and Visualization Web-based Software 2016-186
BASTet and OpenMSI Arrayed Analysis Tools for Mass Spectrometry 2015-157, 2016-188
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Analysis and storage for the OpenMSI project BENEFITS: An easier, streamlined computational method for handling mass spectrometry (MS) data BACKGROUND: Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) enables high-resolution spatial mapping of biomolecules in samples and the analysis of tissues from plants and animals, microbial interactions, … [Read more...] about BASTet and OpenMSI Arrayed Analysis Tools for Mass Spectrometry 2015-157, 2016-188
LABELIT – Software for Macromolecular Diffraction Data Processing CR-1960
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Output from Berkeley Lab’s LABELIT software program for rapid processing of x-ray diffraction images. Automatically index X-ray diffraction images Quickly summarize the diffraction quality Determine Laue symmetry from a partial dataset ADVANTAGES: Makes visual inspection of images unnecessary Better algorithms for spot … [Read more...] about LABELIT – Software for Macromolecular Diffraction Data Processing CR-1960