• Eugene
• Spectacles
• Kepler
• Data Model

Two of the key requirements for introducing automation into the biological design process are reproducibility of specific protocols and formally capturing these protocols. Often these are very complicated, take considerable time to develop and “debug”, and are lab/equipment specific. A highly modular, expressive, and extensible framework to capture and design these workflows would be useful. Our project introduced the Kepler workflow design environment integrating with the existing Clotho platform, in order to formally capture a number of specific design protocols related to composite biological part creation, composite part assembly, and part design/analysis.
Kepler is a multi-university design software focusing on scientific workflows, and is used by a wide variety of projects in different fields. This work is done in conjunction with the Center for Hybrid Embedded Software Systems (CHESS). We planned to improve protocol automation and also create material for a larger audience as well.

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