Team:SJTU-software/Plant
Background
During the preliminary investigation, we communicated with the lab members of the School of Life Science and Technology. In the communication, we learned that many researchers spend more time on document search and integration than project ideas and experimental design when designing a project, which is very unfavorable for project research. For plant research, on the one hand, the size of the database related to plants does not reach the level of the human genome database or database of e. coli, on the other hand, searching for information in databases of different plants can be cumbersome, involving retrieval of content transformations, information screening, redundancy, and so on. Taking these into account, we came up with the idea of building an integrated plant database to help people with plant synthetic biology research.
Aims
The original intention of Phosyme was to provide researchers in plant synthesis with convenient and quick search tools to reduce their extensive work in literature search and integration, in this way to help the development of plant synthesis. In addition, Phosyme has developed a tool kit for plant synthesis biology research to help researchers understand and maximize the use of information to facilitate the development of plant synthesis through visualization and enzyme prediction.
Results
We have provided new software services for the iGEM Plant Synthetic Biology Project. In our project, we updated the list of iGEM plant-based and biobrick-based teams. We integrated a database of plant genes, enzyme reactions and metabolic pathways, and optimized the search methods and content. We collect and integrate the latest advances and overall information of plant synthetic biology, which can provide the background for information query and resource search of plant synthetic biology. In addition, we provide several service plug-ins at Phosyme, including visualization plug-ins and predictive capabilities, which will help researchers and iGEM teams better deal with plant synthetic biology.
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SJTU - software
