About Virtual Parts

"Virtual Parts" is a catalogue of biological parts. Parts are provided in the form of mathematical models that can be composed to create genetic circuits. The current version is still under development and being developed by Keele and Newcastle universities.

Current version

Version 2.0.5

Previous versions

VPR1, the first version of the repository, was developed by members of the Flowers Consortium at Newcastle University and was funded by EPSRC.

VPR1 is available at http://v1.virtualparts.org.

Citing the VPR

• Misirli, G., J.S. Hallinan, and A. Wipat, Composable Modular Models for Synthetic Biology. ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, 11(3), 2014.

Other VPR publications

• Misirli, G., Nguyen, T., McLaughlin, J.A., Vaidyanathan, P., Jones, T.S., Densmore, D., Myers, C. and Wipat, A., 2018. A computational workflow for the automated generation of models of genetic designs. ACS synthetic biology.
• The Best Paper prize at the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology:
  Hallinan, J., O. Gilfellon, G. Misirli, and A. Wipat. Tuning Receiver Characteristics in Bacterial Quorum Communication: An Evolutionary Approach Using Standard Virtual Biological Parts. in 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 2014. Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• M. T. Cooling, V. Rouilly, G. Misirli, J. Lawson, T. Yu, J. Hallinan, and A. Wipat, “Standard virtual biological parts: a repository of modular modeling components for synthetic biology,” Bioinformatics, vol. 26, iss. 7, pp. 925-931, 2010