Hi 👋 I’m Crow

Discordcorvus_ikshana
GitHubhttps://github.com/biohacker0

I’m a software engineer and Bioinformatics Researcher.

Socials : Twitter  |   GitHub | Blog

About Me :

Hey there! I'm a software engineer and a bioinformatics researcher🧬, and part time Script kiddie.

JavaScript + python + pdf's are all I need to get things done✌️

I look up to Fabrice Bellard , george holtz , John Romero and jhon carmac.

I specialize in javascript and its framework ecosystem (React, Node)

I do things that excite me : Frontend! Backend!, Full Stack!.

I find joy in learning how things work and I download the pdf's on how a thing works and implement my solutions.

I got into biotechnology and bioinformatics during my time at university.
Currently publishing lots of my work on blogs and twitter now a days.

Skills :
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python , PostgreSQL, MongoDB , Material UI, React, Redux, NodeJS, Express.
AWS | Cloud Computing | CI/CD | AWS S3, Transcribe | Cloud-Front | Sockets
OOP | Git | Microservices | Frontend | Backend | Full-Stack
Projects :

Here are some of my recent projects::

  • CrowRedis (in-memory Data store) | Blog-1 | Blog-2
    • A simple in-memory datastore like Redis to learn how it works internally and how databases are built.
    • Custom Client for the server to communicate via sockets.
    • Basic Operations(Set GET DEL), Transactions (multi/exec ), Data Persistence(snapshots, AOF) , Data Replication , TTL etc.

  • 3d Mol | Blog | Link
    • Upload PDB Files: Users can upload PDB files containing protein structures.
    • Annotate Protein Segments: Users can annotate specific segments of the protein sequence by specifying start and end indexes along with color preferences.
    • Visualize in 3D: The annotated protein segments are visualized in a 3D molecular structure using 3Dmol.js library.
    • Interactive Display: The tool provides an interactive display of the protein sequence, highlighting annotated segments for easy identification.

  • Kanban Board | Blog | Link
    • Draggable items: Users can drag elements with the class task.
    • Droppable areas: These are defined by elements with the class swim-lane.
    • Visual feedback: When an item is being dragged, it receives visual feedback by adding the class is-dragging.
    • Dynamic positioning: When dropping an item, it is placed above the nearest item in the drop area.

  • Tic Tac Toe | Link
    • Interactive gameplay: Players can click on the grid to place their marks (X or 0).
    • State management: Utilizes React's useState hook to manage the game state and turn logic.
    • Winner detection: Implements functions to check rows, columns, and diagonals for a winner.
    • Visual feedback: Provides real-time updates on the game board with alerts for the winner.

  • Precision Video Editor | Link
    • Video control: Users can play, pause, and seek through a video with a custom slider.
    • Clip creation: Allows setting start and end times for video clips.
    • Precision adjustment: Offers precise control over video playback time in seconds.
    • Real-time updates: Displays current video time and updates as the video plays.
    • Metadata handling: Loads and displays video metadata, such as duration, when the video is loaded.

  • Custom Pagination | Link
    • Data fetching: Retrieves comments from an API and displays them.
    • Pagination: Divides comments into pages, showing 10 comments per page.
    • Select options: Dynamically generates select options to navigate through larger sets of pages.
    • Button navigation: Provides buttons to navigate through pages within the selected range.
    • State management: Utilizes React's useState and useEffect hooks to manage comments, pagination, and navigation state.

  • maCrow( A macro Recorder) | Blog
    • A clean macro recorder to record your keyboard and mouse inputs , save them and replay whenever you want.
    • Record: Capture mouse movements, left or right clicks, scrolls , hold & drag , double clicks, and keyboard inputs with multiple key press combo(hotkeys).
    • Replay: Replay recorded actions to simulate mouse and keyboard behavior.

  • CrowGit (A version Control) | Blog
    • build my own version control system in just 264 lines of Python code, featuring essential functions:

      add, commit, branches, and logs.
    • Also developed cli commands for it with flags like the original git

  • FFTAudioBot
    • A Discord bot utilizing the Fast Fourier Transform for real-time audio analysis and visualization.
    • Implemented commands like !upload, !spectrum, !delete, and !alter, enabling users to process MP3 files and receive PNG visualizations.
  • `Video Clips Maker | YouTube`
    • Video Uploading using NodeJS fs module with Scales for precision and controlling the timing bar.
    • Used FFMPEG library to create video clips based on time stamps. This involved parsing the video file, extracting the desired frames, and then encoding the frames into a new video file.
  • Social Media Forum
    • Developed a social media CRUD application using the MERN stack
    • The single-page application includes user walls, profiles, and sign-up/login pages , retrieving data from a NodeJS back-end server
    • Used Redux for state management with authentication using JWT Tokens and Data stored in Mongo DB database

  • Isomer Generator | Blog
    • Developed a Python script utilizing the RDKit library to generate and visualize isomers of molecules in SMILES format, automating the process of isomer generation and IUPAC-like name assignment.

  • Molecular Docking Automation Scripts
    • Developed a Python script utilizing the RDKit library to generate and visualize isomers of molecules in SMILES format, automating the process of isomer generation and IUPAC-like name assignment.



Bioinformatics/Biotechnology Work 🧬:

Bioinformatics Tools And Databases
PyMOL | Open Babel | AutoDock Tools | AutoDock Vina | RDKit |Fasta |BLAST
NCBI GenBank | UniProt | PDB Biopython | PubChem | ChemSpider
Summery :

In university I took deep interest in biotech and bioinformatics after finding out that DNA serves as a complex biological database, complete with its programming language.
The striking resemblances between viruses and computer exploits made even more excited and had me read numerous papers on
arxiv.org.

  • DNA: The Cosmic Compressor - Unraveling the Singularity of Data Storage:
    DNA's data compression prowess stands as a testament to nature's unparalleled mastery of information storage.

    In essence, DNA represents a singularity of data compression, outperforming even the most advanced human-designed algorithms. It adeptly condenses the intricate blueprint of life into a minuscule package, pushing the boundaries of contemporary technological capabilities.

  • The Viral Intrusion: A Biological Cyberattack
    Viruses, like computer exploits, employ cunning tactics to infiltrate and manipulate their host systems. The parallels between viruses and cyberattacks are uncanny:
    Infection Strategies: So a virus is essentially a package of genetic code wrapped in a protective shell. Much like a malicious software exploit, it remains dormant until it finds a host cell. Once inside, it launches its attack, hijacking the host's resources
    RNA as a Blueprint: Viruses use RNA as their programming language. It contains instructions that compel the host cell to replicate the virus. Think of it as a hacker sending a script to a compromised computer to execute specific tasks(buffer overflow).
    Reverse Engineering: Viruses even have a form of "reverse engineering" akin to cyberattacks. They convert their RNA code into DNA, effectively integrating themselves into the host's genetic database. This is similar to malware that modifies system files to persistently infect a computer.

Projects & Academic Work 🧪:

Here are some of my recent projects and theoretical work:


Blogs / Articles 📝


Hardware / Applied Physics 🧲
  • Building a RFID/NFC card cloner(READER) | Blog

    I was becoming increasingly bored and disheartened upon discovering that I couldn't do much with intercepted radio waves. It turns out they are encrypted, and my intended algorithms for reading the data were not feasible..

    Then I learned that most RFID systems are not encrypted, and I realized that I can not only read their data but also clone them., there is a whole library that handles the firmware and software side of it called : Proxmark3

    So I thought of Building a NFC/RFID card reader/cloner ,


✍️ Thoughts & Perspective🕊️
Physics 📐:
  • Life, Death, and Entropy:

    so we keep our human bodies entropy low by eating food and increasing the entropy of our surroundings.
    so that would mean death is a sort of increase in entropy in our body.

    also , if universes entropy is always increasing then will it just crumble like the human body ,ehh 😦

  • pin diode as phase shifter and workings of discrete FFT

    Was reading about use of pin diode as phase shifter and workings of FFT, quite fascinating.
    You can intercept and read data of lots of radio waves signals.
    if WIFI is open then ;)
    But now most drones, wifi, cellular waves have strong encryption.
    Bit sad, I was so interested :(.

  • Entropy in Data Compression

    so they use entropy calculation in data compression also.
    H(X) = -Σ [P(X = x) * log2(P(X = x))]
    take a coin toss sample(HTHHTTHHHTTHTH)
    P(H) = 8/15 ,P(T) = 7/15 , put in eqn.
    we get-0.9981 bits

    if entropy "H(x)" > 1 bit :good compression can be done ✌️
    if H(x) close to 1 : 😰👎