WP 3 State of the Art

The workpackage WP3 (State of the Art) contains initial research activities for all ESIGNET group members to become familiar with the project. An exhaustive information retrieval characterises this part of the project. It includes literature search, finding appropriate web resources, setup of the technical infrastructure as well as studying publications in relevant fields. This report summarizes the retrieval results and enables first decisions with respect to milestones M3.1 and M3.2.

Since this report should correspond to deliverable D3.1, it is structured as follows: A bibliography (section 2) gives an overview about useful publications. To come along with the recent state of the project, papers are assigned to six main categories and subsequent subclasses in terms of a growing ontology. Section 3 lists appropriate online databases and tools. A description of existing software packages for creating, denotation, analysis, and simulation of cell signal networks (CSNs) can be found in section 4. Possible platforms for publication of project results and selected external research groups active in the field cover sections 5 and 6. A glossary of
biological terms is attached in appendix A.

In fulfilment of deliverable D3.2, a representative webpage www.esignet.net was created that serves two functions: On the one hand, it provides a platform for public relations. On the other hand, it serves as a reference of the project. A protected members area and a project internal wiki support communication and information exchange between group members. Furthermore, it is helpful to discuss ideas and upcoming publications. This report can be seen as an current excerpt of the information available at the project webpages.

The work of the ESIGNET project addresses some of the needs highlighted in the work of the NEST project on Synthetic Biology. For a comprehensive review of this work see the European Commission research report on Synthetic Biology- Applying Engineering to Biology (EUR 21796. ISBN 92-894-9742-4)

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