Synthetic Organism Designer is a piece of
software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
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created by
Craig Venter
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. ...
's team for designing
organism
In biology, an organism () is any life, living system that functions as an individual entity. All organisms are composed of cells (cell theory). Organisms are classified by taxonomy (biology), taxonomy into groups such as Multicellular o ...
s.
[http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_is_on_the_verge_of_creating_synthetic_life.html Craig Venter shows a screen shot of the software (15 minutes and 50 seconds into the video).]
References
Artificial life
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