We’re delighted to share that Felipe Xavier Buson, our cohort 1 student, has published a new journal article in ACS Synthetic Biology! 🎉

📝 A Decade of SBOL Visual: Growing Adoption of a Diagram Standard for Engineering Biology

In this publication, Felipe and co-authors looked back on ten years of SBOL Visual, a key standard for representing genetic design diagrams. First introduced in 2013, SBOL Visual has become an important tool for enabling clear, consistent, and reproducible communication in synthetic biology. The article explores how the standard has been adopted across ACS Synthetic Biology publications, highlights common compliance challenges and best practices, and looks ahead to how SBOL Visual can continue to evolve to meet the needs of the field over the next decade.

For Felipe, this work marks a significant step in a growing career in engineering biology standards:
“I will continue to work on standards for engineering biology, including SBOL and SBOL Visual, and apply them in my other work. The use of these standards is important for unambiguous communication and reproducibility during engineering practice.”

A huge congratulations to Felipe on this achievement – we’re excited to see what comes next! 🚀

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.5c00417