Ben Shirt-Ediss

I am Senior Research Associate in Computational Nanobiology in the ICOS group at Newcastle University, UK. I am currently involved with modelling DNA nanodevices for Synthetic Biology applications.

New preprint

Reverse Engineering DNA Origami Nanostructure Designs from Raw Scaffold and Staple Sequence Lists

Shirt-Ediss, B. et al. bioRxiv 2023.05.03.53926 (2023).

Link: doi:10.1101/2023.05.03.539261

Recent paper

A Last-In First-Out Stack Data Structure Implemented in DNA

Lopiccolo, A., Shirt-Ediss, B. et al. Nature Communications 12, 4861 (2021).

Link: doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25023-6

Publications on Google Scholar

My doctoral thesis was centred on the origins of cellular life problem, where I argued that the emergence of cellular life should be tackled from the view point of the emergence of autonomous protocell systems.

My areas of scientific interest are:

Theory and Computational Modelling of Non-linear Chemical Systems (including DNA Computing and DNA Nanotechnology)
Systems Chemistry
Origins of Life, Protocells, Philosophical aspects relating to the Definition and Nature of Life
Artificial Life

Other misc software projects:

Clarity - a productivity application, allowing multiple desktops on macOS