central-dogma

The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

A RESTful API that converts a given DNA sequence into its corresponding RNA and amino acid sequences and stores the information in a Mongo database for later retrieval. Built using the MEAN stack:

• MongoDB
• Express
• AngularJS
• Node.js

Dependencies

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Python 3

Install Node modules:

npm install express
npm install mongojs
npm install body-parser

Development

To set up the app:

• Make sure MongoDB is up by cd-ing to its directory and executing mongod

• Run the server from this repository's root with node server

The app runs at http://localhost:9000/