This book is intended for a multidisciplinary audience of computer scientists, engineers and biologists. It provides enough background knowledge for computer scientists or engineers, who usually do not have any background in biology and are willing to start off their career in this domain. This book not only presents an accessible basic introduction to molecular biology, it also includes a software tool which allows a user to perform laboratory experiments in a virtual in-silico environment. This helps newbies to get a quick start in understanding and developing genetic design automation tools. Also, the third portion of this book is useful for biologists who usually find it difficult to grasp programming and are afraid of developing computer software. They are introduced with a graphical programming language, from which they can start developing computer programs rapidly. Readers are further provided with small projects which could help them to start developing GDA tools. weiterlesen