
TinkerCell is a Computer-Aided Design software tool for Synthetic Biology that promotes collaboration through its plugin interface. This blog is used to keep notes on updates to the project.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Operator sites
"Operator" has been added as a new part type. It has sub-families called "Activator Binding Site" and "Repressor Binding Site". An Inducible Promoter is defined as a combination of an Activator Binding Site and a Promoter part. A Repressible Promoter is defined as a combination of Repressor Binding Site and Promoter. Only one transcription factor is allowed to bind to a single operator site -- this makes modeling much more convenient, but it also makes sense physically.

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