Inspiration
Crops can be genetically engineered to live around some pretty nasty chemicals, but not all GMO's are bad. It doesn't matter what herbicides and pesticides are used in the valuable biofeuls sector, but livestock feed with trace quantities of fat soluble pesticides could lead to high pesticide concentrations in the food we consume. In order to verify that our crops were not modified to enable pesticide and herbicide tolerance, we need a decentralized platform for genetic purity verification.
What it does
The site offers the resources a consumer or farmer needs to review their FASTQ files against known herbicide and pesticide resistance genes.
How I built it
The site is hosted on AWS
Challenges I ran into
Limited datasets available to profile Smith-Waterman algorithm with small reference library.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Set up the site for people to gather resources from.
What I learned
I surveyed the fertilizers and pesticides currently dominating the market and found the genetic targets which
What's next for Genetic Sanctity Project
Implement user profiles for forum, enable uploads, add more crops/genes.
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