🧬🌐 dt4dds-homepage

• Overview
• Software Requirements
• Installation Guide
• Usage Guide
• License

Overview

This repository contains the homepage for the suite of DT4DDS tools in the following publications:

Gimpel, A.L., Stark, W.J., Heckel, R., Grass R.N. A digital twin for DNA data storage based on comprehensive quantification of errors and biases. Nat Commun 14, 6026 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41729-1

Gimpel, A.L., Stark, W.J., Heckel, R., Grass R.N. Challenges for error-correction coding in DNA data storage: photolithographic synthesis and DNA decay. bioRxiv 2024.07.04.602085 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.04.602085

The hosted version can be found at dt4dds.ethz.ch.

Software requirements

The homepage has only been tested on Ubuntu 23.10, using the following packages for Python 3.12:

Django==5.0.6
django-widget-tweaks==1.5.0
PyYAML==6.0.1
dt4dds==1.1.0

Installation guide

To clone this repository from Github, use:

git clone https://github.com/fml-ethz/dt4dds-homepage
cd dt4dds-homepage

Initialize and update the submodules for dt4dds and dt4dds-challenges with:

git submodule init
git submodule update

Install the required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Finally, collect the static content from the webpage:

python dt4dds_web/manage.py collectstatic

Usage guide

The homepage is separated into two processes: the webserver dt4dds-web and the simulation node dt4dds-node. Start these processes with:

python dt4dds_web/manage.py runserver
python dt4dds_node/main.py

You can then navigate to localhost:8000 to use the homepage locally. A default admin account (username: admin, password: admin) is already created.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 license, see here.