- GEC was developed by Michael Pedersen, Matthew Lakin, Filippo Polo, Rasmus Petersen, Colin Gravill, Neil Dalchau and Andrew Phillips at Microsoft Research.
- GEC uses a Language for Biological Systems (LBS) as a target for compilation. LBS was developed by Michael Pedersen under a Microsoft PhD scholarship supervised by Gordon Plotkin, Centre for Systems Biology at Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh.
- The core GEC language was developed in F#.
- GEC uses Dynamic Data Display for visualising simulation plots.
- GEC uses Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout for visualising networks.