The AutoAnnotator - Standardized annotation of protein-encoding BioBricks

Abstract

For protein-encoding BioBricks a large number of useful parameters, such as the amino acid sequence or the molecular weight, can easily be computed. Furthermore alignments against databases and predictions of various features, for instance transmembrane regions, are very interesting and informative when viewing a part. However, this information is not presented or very hard to find in most part descriptions and requires the user to use external websites to obtain it. To resolve this issue we propose a standardized table containing this information. For this purpose we developed a web tool, called the AutoAnnotator, in JavaScript gathering this information and providing the standardized table for the user to copy.