The Eugene Language

Eugene is a human- and machine-readable language developed to speed up and innovate the design of novel biological devices. The Eugene language provides facilities to specify a system of parts and devices, as well as rules to constraining their composition. The overarching goal is that Eugene becomes the clear language of choice for user-level design specifications within the synthetic biology domain.

Eugene's key facilities for the synthetic biology domain include to

• specify synthetic biological components at various abstraction levels,

• define constraints (i.e., rules) on the components' compositions

• manage the control-flow of design synthesis,

• utlize Eugene's API to, for example, generate novel biological devices automatically, and

• prototype and invoke user-required and reusable functions.

We provide the following resources to start working with the Eugene language:

• Eugene's Sourceforge Project to download the sources and executables

• Eugene's Online Documentation to learn Eugene's features and syntax, and

• Eugene Examples and Case Studies to help exploring Eugene's features and syntax in a learning-by-doing style