MoClo planner: supporting innovation in bio-design through multi-touch interaction

  • Authors:

  • Sirui Liu;Kara Lu;Nahum Seifeselassie;Casey Grote;Nicole Francisco;Veronica Lin;Linda Ding;Consuelo Valdes;Robert Kincaid;Orit Shaer

  • Affiliations:

  • Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College & MIT, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA;Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, California, USA;Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Synthetic biology is an emerging field that promises to revolutionize biotechnology through the design and construction of new biological constructs useful for medicine, agriculture, and industry. Software tools for this field are currently immature. Our research investi-gates how interactive tabletops and surfaces could be utilized to enhance innovation in biological design. Here, we present the MoClo Planner, a multi-touch interface, which supports the design and construction of complex biological constructs. MoClo planner was developed in close collaboration with domain scientists to simplify the design stage of a cutting-edge laboratory method.