Viridian

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  Our project board

Inspiration

One of our teammate's mother personally experienced life under a restricted diet due to unknown allergies; tools like this could help alleviate the stressful everyday life for others with dietary allergies caused only by their genetics.

What it does

Viridian scans through a multiple sets of DNA to find genetic variations and then determine the dietary changes necessary to account for how different people process food differently.

How we built it

We split the work across our three programmers; one to deal with backend, one to deal with frontend, and one to deal with security. Then we used Git to merge everything together into a single cohesive project and spun up a Flask website.

Challenges we ran into

Frontend: developed a personal vendetta against

and overcame the challenges of manually positioning HTML elements

Security: overcame the challenge of building SQL tables as opposed to her previous knowledge of trying to hack into SQL tables; learning to make rather than break

Backend: overcame the challenge of learning to build custom modules to align several DNA segments with a command line tool because preexisting Python modules did not work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Security: Encrypting and removing PII

Frontend: the entire website, all built by hand

Backend: Custom DNA Alignment

Project Lead: Creating a video that properly presents the project under the time limit

What we learned

Security: to built code in a more OOP-friendly style

Frontend: Start merging separate elements of the project sooner

Project Lead: the whiteboard can be removed from the wall

Backend: DNA alignment is super tough and super cool

What's next for Viridian

big bucks

Built With

• css
• flask
• html
• javascript
• json
• python
• sql