Proteomics Sorter and Analyzer

There was a very important part to the early programming that I missed. -Steven W.
A late draft of the program.
A late draft of the program.
The first drawings on the white board of the program

Inspiration

The inspiration is the existence of conditionally-fatal genetic disorders for centuries people have been living or dying based merely on the presence of intrinsically harmless materials. Similar to how one bee-sting kills one person, while the same may cause nothing more than a mere annoyance to another. Mutated genetics cause mutated proteins which often is the cause for those conditionally-fatal genetic disorders. Thinking of those genetic disorders, dysfunctional proteins as positive things, can enlighten they eyes towards more treatments for inoperable diseases, namely cancer in vital organs. All we need to do is find the malfunctioning proteins, and those proteins' normal functions, and a medical professional can infer more treatment options.

What it does

Given the protein sequence reference, it finds the malfunctions in proteins, and determine how much they are malfunctioning.

How I built it

C# .NET windows forms, Visual Studio.

Challenges I ran into

We needed to cut the scope of work, as early programming attempts proved fruitless.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We have a useful, and working program started and completed with nearly half the time originally had.

What I learned

The National Institute of Health's API is extremely finicky, and it takes lots of time to get very little progress made. I learn better methods of url api's than the ones that I knew from before.