Annotation Indexing

Dfam

March 9 2025

It had been years since I’d used a compiled, strongly typed language, but we needed a newer, faster subsystem. It was a perfect excuse to expand my toolbox.

Partitioning The Taxonomic Tree

Dfam

November 28 2023

Before I started working for Dfam, the entire database was less than a hundred Gigabytes. Just before I joined it doubled in size, and by the time I’d found my feet it was over 800 Gigabytes and growing.

Back-End Routing

DevRoast

April 3 2022

So far I’ve been focusing on building the DevRoast user interface, I had to familiarize myself with the server-side framework in order to add the remaining features.

Meta'Omics Upgrade

Meta 'Omic Classification

June 29 2021

Expanding the project from my metagenomics class has been on my to-do list for some time, but the older code needed an update first.

Adventures In Front-End Testing

DevRoast

June 10 2021

The Devroast UI has grown in complexity to the point that manually clicking things is no longer an efficient way of testing new features. Automating those clicks was a journey.

Frontend CRUD Operations

DevRoast

April 4 2021

Basic CRUD operations have been added to DevRoast using React.

OptimalPack Frontend Rebuild

OptimalPack

January 19 2021

I learned React.js by using it to build a real UI for the OptimalPack database.