Show HN: A DNA motif/feature scanner on a single Cloudflare Worker, in Rust

Category: library

Tags: bioinformatics, rust, cloudflare-worker, dna-analysis, educational

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

A Cloudflare Worker written in Rust that provides a web UI for scanning DNA sequences for motifs, ORFs, restriction sites, and other features, using Workers AI to interpret natural language requests. Its interesting combination of bioinformatics logic, Rust/WASM deployment, and AI-driven natural language scanning make it a novel educational tool for genomics.

Target audience: bioinformaticians, students, educators

Repository: https://github.com/dhruvkjain/argus-ligand · Rust

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