Tools I built outside the lab
Web apps built outside my research, all free, browser-based, and privacy-first. Each one has a blog post explaining the why and how behind it.
Separate from my research software — they're here so the science stays front and center on the main site. Click any card to open the app, read the blog post, or go straight to the source.
🎮 Play TailFiber, the receptor-docking phage game ↓
The AI on this page is product surface — generated explanations and training programs. The research-side machine learning lives with the science tools: the PlaqSeg plaque segmenter and the pooled AlphaFold 3 screen designer.
TailFiber
A receptor-docking phage game built on real biology — finished, and playable right here. Arrow keys or WASD; a joystick appears on touch screens. Turn your sound up: every dock, burst and hit has its own sound, and on a phone you feel them too (toggle with M and H).
TailFiber a scientifically-grounded phage simulator
Dock to the right receptor. Dodge antibodies, complement, and macrophages. Outpace CRISPR. Evolve your tail fibers. Burst.
A small browser game that compresses the real biology of phage adsorption, infection timing, and host defense into something a microbiologist nods at and a 12-year-old loses an hour to. Built to double as outreach material — Darwin Day, K–12, conferences.