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From 2011.igem.org

I recently graduated from Olin College with a degree in electrical and computer engineering. I'm excited to work with Wellesley and BU this summer before starting work at Google in September.

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Contents 1 June 3 2 June 10 3 June 17 4 June 24 5 July 1 6 July 8 7 July 15 8 July 22

June 3

• Learned basics of synthetic biology
• Learned about parallels between automated design tools in IC design and tools used in synthetic biology
• Played around with Clotho platform

June 10

• Worked on design for prokaryotic chromosome navigator
• Made a short video with a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8hbKfU5iI paper prototype]

June 17

• Started work on implementing G-nome surfer for prokaryotes (G-nome Surfer Pro)
• Learned about Microsoft's WPF framework
• Read about data [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752347.aspx binding] and [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742521.aspx templating]

June 24

• Implemented an "infinite scrolling" listbox
• Read about model view view-model design pattern for WPF
• Worked with Heidi, Taili, Casey, Megan, and Consuelo to implement G-nome Surfer Pro demo

July 1

• Designed a publications view with Heidi, Taili, and Casey
• Planned out a refactoring of the code base

July 8

• Worked with Michelle to design an interface for Trumpet
• Began development work on Trumpet for the microsoft surface

July 15

• Added drag functionality for Trumpet
• Added sequence and translation view to G-nome Surfer

July 22

We started our final push before the usability study. By this point we had refactored our code using the model view view-model (MVVM) pattern and had a couple pieces of functionality left to add. I worked on speeding up the initial rendering of the chromosome bar. The chromosome bar may contain tens of thousands of gene objects. As a result, it was important to get the rendering of the individual gene objects as fast as possible. By analyzing different methods for rendering the genes, I was able to reduce the total rendering time from fifteen minutes to thirty seconds.

We also hooked up the backend data source. This step went off without a hitch. We had previously agreed upon an interface that the data store had to follow and we used a mocked version while waiting for development to finish. When Megan finished the backend, we swapped the mock version and the real version and the application worked!