LOICA

Welcome to the LOICA (Logical Operators for Integrated Cell Algorithms) repository, our Python package for designing, modeling and characterizing genetic networks.

As you may have noticed, our logo features a beautiful bird—loica (Leistes loyca); a bird native to Chile known for its particular red chest and legendary kindness, with which we share name.

Reference and citation

LOICA is an academic open source software for science, if you want to reference or cite it please use the following:

DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.1c00603

Get the BibTeX in Google Scholar

Installation

Installing LOICA is way easier than pronuncing it!

Do:

pip install loica

For more details please refer to our Wiki for installation instructions and developer guides.

LOICA allows you to:

• Compile Code into DNA fragments that execute Cell Algorithms
• Easy programation of genetic network models
• Generation of synthetic data
• Communicate with Flapjack
• Use and output SBOL files
• Use all sorts of cellular computation
• Easy, fluid and customisable DNA design

Documentation

Please visit our documentation with API reference at Read the Docs: loica.readthedocs.io.

Tutorials

Now that you have LOICA installed you can familiarize yourself with the tool using the Jupyter notebook tutorials designed for this purpose.

Run LOICA on the web without any installation! LOICA Colab Notebook

You can use and modify this code by saving a copy in Drive.