I am a web developer who also happens to a neuroscientist and computational biologist. I'm passionate about empowering folks with access to an internet connection to change the world in small ways. With a focus on bringing complex datasets and algorithms into usable focus, I build things on the web to nudge science forward.

Barrista.js is a javascript framework for web application development tuned to the NIH LINCS dataset (https://commonfund.nih.gov/LINCS/index, http://www.lincsproject.org, and lincscloud.org). The components of Barista.js are centered around the core structures of Models, Collections, and Views derived from Backbone.js. Barista.js supports all of the all of the applications developed on apps.lincscloud.org and is integrated with data from api.lincscloud.org.

Barista.js leverages Backbone.js, underscore.js, jquery, handlebars.js and bootstrap to provide modern frontend functionality that can be configured with HTML data attributes or through javascript.

Barista.js uses awesome tooling provided by the folks at grunt, bower and yeoman