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Research Study Project
COTWINS is a research study at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at CU Boulder. COTWINS is funded by the National Institutes of Health and overseen by the University of Colorado Institutional Review Board, an independent board of science and ethics experts who ensure the protection and safety of participants within the study. The primary purpose of COTWINS is to use new
technologies to understand adolescents, their development, and behavior. In COTWINS we focus on twins, who provide a powerful and exciting way understand how our genes and environment interact to make us who we are.Requirements:
Our team was responsible for such steps of the development in the project: frontend and backend systems development, iOS&,Android mobile applications creation and plugins for browsers development. The significant part of the project was backend system development:
- refactor existing source code, bring it to the modern code style standards
- speed up the database by optimizing SQLAlchemy queries
- create API for the external service
- migrate service that allows users to take surveys
- add Jenkins continuous integration
- integrate with Facebook and Twitter
- implement Chrome, Mozilla, Safari extension
- add new functions to the admin panel