backbone-genetics

####Live demo: http://backbone-genetics.herokuapp.com

An application demonstrating simple MV* architecture on top of Backbone.js framework as well as one of basic algorithms in bioinformatics - overlap graph generation.

Solution stack:

Frontend

• Backbone as core MV* framework
• Lodash instead of Underscore for better performance and cross-browser consistency
• jQuery for DOM manipulation in views
• HTML5 Boilerplate for initial page structure and common CSS rules
• Bower for bootstrapping 3rd-party dependencies
• Require.js for dependency management and modular app structure
• Twitter Bootstrap for nice-looking UI

Backend

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• Mongoose

Bonus features:

• Dynamic overlap graph generation
• DNA / RNA / protein strings validation
• Centralized configuration
• Lazy templates precompilation
• Memoized suffix and prefix extraction

What's missing:

• Build management. Grunt makes linting, minifying and much more almost effortless.
• CSS preprocessing. SASS, Less and Stylus are all great tools for that.
• Full-featured template engine (Lodash templates are used for simplicity)
• Unit tests