SBOL: A community standard for communicating designs in synthetic biology

Abstract
The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is a proposed data standard for exchanging designs within the synthetic biology community. SBOL represents synthetic biology designs in a community-adopted, formalized format for exchange between software tools, research groups, and commercial service providers. The re-use of previously validated designs is critical to the evolution of synthetic biology from a research discipline to an engineering practice. As a community-driven standard, SBOL adapts as synthetic biology evolves, providing specific capabilities for different aspects of the synthetic biology workflow. The SBOL Developers Group has implemented SBOL 1.1 as an XML/RDF serialization and provides software libraries and specification documentation to help developers implement SBOL in their own software. This paper also reports on early successes, including a demonstration of the utility of SBOL for information exchange between three different tools from three academic sites.

摘要
合成生物学开放语言（SBOL）是旨在合成生物学领域内进行设计交换的一种数据标准提案。SBOL采用社区认可、规范化的格式，以促进软件工具、研究团队和商业服务提供商之间的设计交换。对先前验证设计的再利用对于合成生物学从研究学科向工程实践的演变至关重要。作为社区驱动的标准，SBOL能够随着合成生物学的进步而不断调整，为合成生物学工作流程的各个方面提供特定的功能。SBOL开发者小组已将SBOL 1.1实现为XML/RDF序列化，并提供软件库和规范文档，以帮助开发者在其软件中实现SBOL。本文还报告了早期成功案例，包括三个学术机构的三种不同工具之间利用SBOL进行信息交换的演示。