From a technical standpoint, this is a standalone binary written using the EGUI library in rust. A project goal is performance, with small memory footprint, and small application and file sizes.
This is a continuous work-in-progress, and I'm open to any and all feedback, criticism, and requested features.
- Cool tool!
It brings back memories: one of my favourite high level undergraduate course finals involved being given some instructions, printouts of sequence/primers/enzymes cleavage sites/other plasmids and a rough list of my resources and told to make a specific product. The exam was long answer essay writing out step by step instructions with rationale.
I did the whole thing and double checking realized I misread an initial sequence in the first few steps making the whole thing void and probably more or less difficult than intended. I added an oh shit disclaimer in my solution. The prof, a researcher, to his immense credit presumably took off some points but the point of the exercise was testing a skillset and I did excellent in the course. Basically how higher education should be and night and day difference from 1000/2000 level courses!
- This is cool! I've worked on a tool like this for a major biotech, its nice to see an open source version with a decent feature set.
Looks like your other work is related to UAVs. How did you find this problem space? What was the inspiration for this tool?
- This looks very nice. I don't do cloning, but various amplicon sequencing things. I had often used AliView, which is nice for alignments but can't mark regions or primers. I also like the Benchling sequencing editor, but that's online and may go away/charge money.
A few questions:
Can I make the UI light instead of dark?
The 'simulate PCR' works, but seems to unload the original sequence. Can I get that back? This is a bit unexpected.
- Looks cool, and definitely like the standalone binary format.
Tangentially, glad to see more biotech stuff finally making the front on HN! :D
- Can't wait until I can 3D print my own proteins.
- Exciting!
- Sorry is this is a lame Q:
Could you take the sequences and python up a blender script that will model the thing?
Also, on solutions-mixer- can I use this to map proteins to feed to stem cells to get them to present in a certain way?
- This install part REALLY needs to improve. Give me screenshots of how to use this on Windows. Explain step by step. Does installation requires administrative credentials or I can run this as a lowly tech on the locked down computer the laboratory has?
Overall the readme should cater for biologists, biochem and others that don't necessarily are well versed into computer science. Just explain the basics to get things going.
Also a video would help too - in addition, not as sole resource.
Looks interesting but too out of reach for a regular biochem grad to pickup as is.