# Show and Tell - RNA visualization app for COVID Vaccine competition by Stanford/Eterna

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Tags:** show-and-tell\
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050 "2020-09-17T19:46:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![xhlu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/xhlu/32/12736_2.png) [@xhlu](https://community.plotly.com/u/xhlu)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050/1 "2020-09-17T19:46:54Z")

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Hello all! I found an [awesome Dash app](https://rna-dash.herokuapp.com/) made by [Atharva](https://www.kaggle.com/bigpappathanos) that lets you visualize Eterna’s RNA sequences & structure data, which were labeled with various degradation rates.

 ![eterna-dash](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/plot/original/2X/9/9ac0f2b5b65265358b2d996b2f91564c70a66afd.gif)

From the competition page:

> mRNA vaccines have taken the lead as the fastest vaccine candidates for COVID-19, but currently, they face key potential limitations. One of the biggest challenges right now is how to design super stable messenger RNA molecules (mRNA). Conventional vaccines (like your seasonal flu shots) are packaged in disposable syringes and shipped under refrigeration around the world, but that is not currently possible for mRNA vaccines.

This is super exciting because the competition could lead to the creation of more stable vaccine. For this reason, I can’t wait to see how Python libraries like Dash Bio, Biopython, Tensorflow and Pytorch will be used to help accelerate the development of those vaccines through interactive apps like this!

### Dash App

[https://rna-dash.herokuapp.com/](https://rna-dash.herokuapp.com/)

### Discussion on Kaggle

> **[OpenVaccine: COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Degradation Prediction](https://www.kaggle.com/c/stanford-covid-vaccine/discussion/183363)**
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> Urgent need to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to mass production

### Dash Bio `Forna` Component

> **[FornaContainer | Dash for Python Documentation | Plotly](https://dash.plotly.com/dash-bio/fornacontainer)**
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> Dash Bio is a component library dedicated to visualizing bioinformatics data.

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**Author:** ![chriddyp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/chriddyp/32/16855_2.png) [@chriddyp](https://community.plotly.com/u/chriddyp)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050/2 "2020-09-17T22:07:51Z")

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Very, very sweet. Nice to see these [`dash-bio`](https://dash.plotly.com/dash-bio) components in action. Thanks for sharing! ❤

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**Author:** ![Atharva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/atharva/32/13966_2.png) [@Atharva](https://community.plotly.com/u/Atharva)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050/3 "2020-09-18T03:29:06Z")

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Thank you so much for sharing this!!  
I will be adding more plots to make this look even cooler 😃

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**Author:** ![chriddyp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/chriddyp/32/16855_2.png) [@chriddyp](https://community.plotly.com/u/chriddyp)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050/4 "2020-09-18T04:13:05Z")

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Welcome to the Dash community @Atharva! Very nice work 🙂

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**Author:** ![Atharva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/atharva/32/13966_2.png) [@Atharva](https://community.plotly.com/u/Atharva)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/show-and-tell-rna-visualization-app-for-covid-vaccine-competition-by-stanford-eterna/45050/5 "2020-09-18T04:55:35Z")

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I am glad you liked it! 🙂