
Standardizing the visual representation of genetic parts and circuits is essential for unambiguously creating and interpreting genetic designs. To this end, an increasing number of tools are adopting well-defined glyphs from the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Visual standard to represent various genetic parts…
People who are engineering biological organisms often find it useful to communicate in diagrams, both about the structure of the nucleic acid sequences that they are engineering and about the functional relationships between sequence features and other molecular species. Some typical practices and conventions have…

Modelling and computational simulation are crucial for the large-scale engineering of biological circuits since they allow the system under design to be simulated prior to implementation in vivo. To support automated, model-driven design it is desirable that in silico models are modular, composable and use standard…
Examples to demonstrate the usage of SBOL Visual glyphs is given below.
Example1: A SBOL visual design of the circuit that contains a promoter, RBS, CDS, and terminator. The promoter is stimulated by CDS that it regulates.

Example2: Phosphorylation of an inactive transcription factor (produced by two different CDSs) by a kinase to form an active transcriptional activator, which then stimulates a promoter.
