Synthetic biology is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems or redesign systems already found in nature to have new abilities.
Synthetic biology approaches are used to modify microbes for better production of biofuels, such as cellulosic biofuel.
Bioinformatics is the use of computational techniques to organize and search biological data as well as model biological systems and solve biological problems.
Synthetic biology involves designing, engineering, and building biological systems using standardized biological parts. Standardized biological parts include DNA fragments that code for proteins and DNA elements that regulate transcription. There are common techniques for identifying, isolating, storing and manipulating these biological parts. The generation of customized cells with fully synthetic genomes is another area of synthetic biology.