TY - JOUR A1 - Staab, Paul R. A1 - Walossek, Jörg A1 - Nellessen, David A1 - Grünberg, Raik A1 - Arndt, Katja Maren A1 - Müller, Kristian M. T1 - SynBioWave : a real-time communication platform for molecular and synthetic biology N2 - Synthetic Biology is advanced by many users and relies on the assembly of genetic elements to devices, systems and finally genomes. SynBioWave is a software suite that enables multiple distributed users to analyze and construct genetic parts in real-time collaboration. It builds on Google Wave and provides an extensible robot-robot-user communication framework, a menu driven user interface, biological data handling including DAS and an internal database communication. We demonstrate its use by implementing robots for gene-data retrieval, manipulation and display. The initial development of SynBioWave demonstrates the power of the underlying Google Wave protocol for Synthetic Biology and lays the foundation for continuous and user-friendly extensions. Specialized wave-robots with a manageable set of capabilities will divide and conquer the complex task of creating a genome in silico. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq518 SN - 1367-4803 ER -