Drew Endy

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Drew Endy is an assistant professor of Biological Engineering at MIT until June of 2008. Starting in June 2008, he will be an assistant professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University.

With Thomas Knight, Gerald Jay Sussman, and other researchers at MIT, he is working on synthetic biology and the engineering of standardized biological components, devices, and parts, collectively known as BioBricks.^[1] Endy is one of several founders of the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, and invented an abstraction hierarchy for integrated genetic systems.

Endy is also known for his opposition to limited ownership and support of free access to genetic information. He has been one of the early promoters of open source biology, and helped start the Biobricks Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that will work to support open-source biology. He is also a co-founder of Codon Devices, a biotechnology startup company that is aiming to commercialize DNA synthesis. With their proprietary BioFAB™ platform, Codon Devices produces the DNA or protein sequences anybody orders.

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• Lab webpage at MIT
• Personal page on OpenWetWare for Drew Endy
• Abstraction hierarchy for integrated genetic systems
• Steal This Genome
• Biology Yearns to be Free
• Codon Devices, Inc.
• Article on the commercialization of DNA synthesis
• Registry of Standard Biological Parts