The people

G. Vergnaud, PhD

• Scientific head of MicroGeno
• MLVABank code refactoring
• Searching for a lead developer
• Turning the "website" to a web application

TailorDev

• (Web) applications development
• Part of the ComSource web & print agency
• Toulouse & Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Julien Maupetit, PhD, Co-Founder (CTO)
• Strong background in bio-informatics

The past

MLVABank

• from 2007 to 2013
• Originally developed by Patrick Bouchon
• Maintained and improved by Christophe Tourterel
• PHP & JavaScript, no framework

MLVABank features

• User-friendly
• Cooperative databases
• Contributors keep control of their data
• MLVA data, but not only...

The present

• MicroGeno is the new MLVABank
• Development started in 2012
• Completely rewritten from scratch
• Python - Django web framework
• HTML5 - CSS3 - JavaScript

MicroGeno core features

• Logical data storage (relational database schema)
• in situ clusters analysis (dendrogram, MST)
• Not dedicated to a particular species
• Supports MLVA, MLST, SNP, SPOLIGO and CRISPR data
• Easily scalable
• Cloud-ready (SaaS & PaaS)

It's an application, not just a "simple" website!

Demo party!

The future

Ongoing directions (1)

• Open Source
• Documentation for developers and end-users
• More tests (Test Driven Development)
• Move front-end to JS framework

Ongoing directions (2)

• REST API
• Local analysis tools
• Synchronize (selected) data to the/your cloud