[candrewlee14]

It's always fun for me to see C. elegans meet software. This is amazing.

My undergrad degree capstone project was a flow-based visual C. elegans strain builder[1]. The team worked with two researchers who taught us a lot about genetics and basic C. elegans biology. They are a fascinating model organism, and it was a super fun project to work on. Even though it's got a very small potential userbase, it did have a potential userbase (which was more than you could say about most capstone projects). We used some interesting technology to build it (Tauri[2]: Rust + Web Frontend), learned some biology along the way, and ended up with a great prototype.

Since none of the software team had any background in genetics, modeling the data was pretty difficult. We'd meet with researchers, they'd teach us new genetics concept, we'd build our models, then the next week they'd say "OH we forgot to tell you about this caveat", then we'd go back to the drawing board, update the schema (thank heavens for migrations), rinse and repeat. It was a lot of fun though :) I couldn't have asked for much more out of a capstone project.

[1] https://worm-world.github.io/ [2] https://tauri.app/

[tleilaxu]

>"OH we forgot to tell you about this caveat", then we'd go back to the drawing board, update the schema (thank heavens for migrations), rinse and repeat.

Doesn’t sound that different from standard business software development!

Fascinating project. Really enjoyed reading about it - well done!