engineering life

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Helyxzion.com is the delivery platform for the Helyxzion ANVIL Viewer, a web-served bioinformatics application that facilitates rapid modeling and analysis of DNA as a practical programming language.

Click here to view a descriptive tour of the Helyxzion ANVIL Viewer application.

Dr. Watson and

Dr. Crick Discover the structure of DNA

Dr. Stevens gives

Dr. Watson the first Helyxzion License

ENGTINEERING LIFE WITH

HELYXZION ANVIL THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE OF DNA.

Although the term "genetic engineering" has been in use for at least three decades, and recombinant DNA methods are now mainstays of modern research, most biotechnologists' work with living things has little in common with engineering. One reason is that the tools available for building with biological "parts" have yet to reach a level of standardization and utility equal to that in other engineering fields. Another has to do with methods and mind-sets in biology, although these, too, can be powerfully influenced by technology.

Electronic engineering, for example, was transformed beginning in 1957, when Jean Hoerni of Fairchild Semiconductor, a small company in what would later be known as Silicon Valley, invented planar technology. It was a system for layering and etching metals and chemicals within silicon wafers using templates called photomasks. This new approach allowed engineers to produce integrated circuits cleanly and consistently and to create a wide variety of circuit types just by changing the pattern on the photomask. Soon engineers could draw from libraries of simple circuits made by others and combine them in increasingly complex designs with a widening range of applications.

To start to build such applications first requires a programming or blue printing language from which to start the process and that is the helyxzion "anvil" LANGUAGE OF DNA.

For the new breed of synthetic biologists, creatures are a collection of parts for constructing living machines, as New Scientist discovers

How building "circuits" from proteins rather than wires, from taking microbes apart and putting them back together in novel ways. Genes and proteins are components to be plugged together at will. A bacterial cell, meanwhile, is regarded as a "chassis", to be stripped down and used as a circuit board and power supply.

They call themselves synthetic biologists, ...

Helyxzion Engineering Life Cycle

Helyxzion ANVIL provides both a road map and a vehicle for an enterprise's journey into the future. Helyxzion Engineering life cycle involves a multi-phased approach that coordinates strategic, operational, and organizational demands. The following is a typical Helyxzion Engineering cycle:

1. Describe the enterprise mission in a brief statement of purpose: what the enterprise does, how, and for whom.

2. Make assumptions and gather data about external factors; for example, government policies, rates of inflation, markets, and demographic changes.

3. Assess enterprise strengths and weaknesses.

4. Establish goals and objectives and measures linked to the enterprise mission.

5. Develop strategic and operational plans to meet the goals and objectives.

6. Design/re-design and integrate cross-functional processes to meet goals and objectives.

7. Implement information systems that support enterprise processes and assist decision-making.

8. Evaluate performance to ensure that goals and objectives are being met.

9. Reevaluate and change goals, objectives, processes and measures as necessary.

Helyxzion Engineering often involves wholesale enterprise culture change, and is quite difficult. The innovative and constructive use of computer-based tools, at every step in the cycle, can make such change much easier.

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