If you want to learn about the field of synthetic biology, here are some links:

• Synthetic biology presentation. Overview of the field and work at MIT.
• http://taqdot.org/: Slash-based news for the open source and synthetic biology community.
• http://syntheticbiology.org/: the sometimes updated web page for the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group. Was most likely my fault, but now using the Openwetware wiki so others can share in the blame. Here's the dewikify script I put together to snarf data from the wiki and make it appear as a static page.
• OpenWetWare: A wiki containing lots of biology related stuff and growing fast.
• Synthetic Biology 1.0: the conference we ran at MIT to bring together people and to try to define the field of synthetic biology. The field is only in an alpha state, but we decided to have version 1.0 anywhere and fix the bugs later. Watch for Synthetic Biology 2006 to come soon. Having a bunch of people who have never run a conference try to organize a conference is almost as much fun as mouth-pipetting phenol.
• Articles: here's a sampling of some articles and papers that I think provide a pretty good overview of the highlights of the field, at least how I see it. If you read and understand all of these, you would probably know more than I do about synthetic biology.
• The MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts: aka, The MIT Registry of Standard Mostly Non-working Biological Parts, but at least they all have part numbers and they are standardized so now we can all use the same non-working parts.
• Supercell: a synthetic biology song I wrote when I was bored.

Austin Che