SynBioCAD is an open-source, Web-based computer aided design (CAD) tool for synthetic biology built on the SBOL standard.

Things you can do so far:

• Visualization of SBOL2 designs inc. ModuleDefinitions and interactions
• Drag and drop modification of designs
• Sequence editing

Many more features are planned. Watch this space!

Usage

SynBioCAD can run in several different configurations.

Local webapp

yarn
node dev-server.js ./webpack_browser.config.js

Then load http://localhost:9999/index.html in a Web browser

Local offline

yarn install
node dev-server.js ./webpack_nodejs.config.js

Then run node bundle_cli.js testall to test all examples in testfiles

Web service

As a Web service, SynBioCAD accepts POSTed SBOL/GenBank files and returns SVG.

First follow the local offline instructions, then run:

node bundle_cli.js server 8080

Or use the provided Dockerfile.