Unless you're a scientist, educator or a grad student who is studying to be a scientists or an educator in bio-technology and medial fields then this site might not offer too much much for you. Still, I wanted to post this here to gather feedback since it might offer inspiration with programmers with similar projects.

The website is built on Google App Engine in python. I feel that the general performance, success and maintainability of the finished product is a result of GAE's easy workflow, deployment and scalability. You really can save a whole bunch of time by not worrying about DB and hosting issues.

Of course using a big table and key-value DB vs a RDBMS has its drawbacks, we were able to work around the lack of joins, etc pretty quickly.

Overall we can see using GAE for future projects.

Cheers,

r.S.