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Virginia Tech to Scale Up Synthetic DNA Design Software Tool with $1.4M NSF Grant

Scientists at Virginia Tech will use a three-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand GenoCAD — a user-friendly software package that enables scientists to design genetic constructs using a genetic “parts list.”

The grant, awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute’s Synthetic Biology Group, supports continued development of GenoCAD’s web-based computer-assisted design environment.

Principal investigator Jean Peccoud, who leads VBI’s Synthetic Biology Group, told BioInform via e-mail that the grant will allow the team to “significantly scale up our effort,” and said he would like to be able to release new versions of GenoCAD on a quarterly basis.Read Full Article

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