Prospects

In this section of the page we want to tell you about the plans we have for SynBioWave in the future.
SynBioWave was developed on Google Wave, in fact it was one of the first major projects for the platform when Wave got released in 2009. Google Wave itself however did not get the reputation Google was hoping for so in the late summmer of 2010 they announced the end of the Development and said they would shut down the Google Wave servers by the end of 2010.

Google is shutting down Google Wave, so SynBioWave is doomed, right?

WRONG! While it is true that SynBioWave was developed and currently only runs on Google Wave, Google has promised to make the whole Wave Protocol open-source and give it to the large developer community that has formed around it in the last 2 years.

Building on the collaborative framework set up by our team last year, we focused and developed some essential Add-on Robots this year that serve day-to-days professional needs of synthetic biologists. We have planned more interesting stuffs for coming future mainly like:

Framework

• We currently show the workspace in a separate wave. We are planning to open a separate window. That would make use handling number of sequences easier.

Restriction Enzymes Robot

• Possibility to select multiple enzymes and search them in sequences at one go.

Codon Usage Robot

• Possibility to show the graph of the codons used in the sequence.

Other

• As Google has announced "Wave in Box", we will extend it to develop our own wave client.This would off-load all the delays and performance breakdowns.