Cross-cutting research
Tools for biological synthesis
The large base of knowledge in the area of technology for integrated circuits design can be applied to other domains and on media that differ from semiconductors such as biological synthesis. This is a new technology where biotechnology meets semi-conductor and computer sciences. The goal is to create new biological functions by assembling appropriate elementary blocks (DNA sequences) as in the synthesis process of digital integrated ICs. One activity of the SMH team precisely consists in identifying and make use of the similarities to IC conception. This activity is bound to "Technologies for computer aided design" activities as far as the elementary blocks modeling and CAD tools (components library, biological synthesizer, dedicated simulator, optimizer ...) development is concerned.
