[BioRuby] GSoC - project "Represent bio-objects and related information with images"

[Michał Koziarski]

Hi Francesco,

2011/4/6 Francesco Strozzi <francesco.strozzi at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> 2011/4/6 Christian Zmasek <cmzmasek at yahoo.com>
>
>> Hi, Michał:
>>
>> You timeline is much better now!
>>
>> I put some comments/question into your text (see below).
>>
>>
>>
>> >     Week 1:
>> >     Goal: choose one  representative type of BioRuby object and develop
>> class
>> > that would convert  its data to proposed format. That should come along
>> with
>> > unit  tests.
>>
>>
>> This is a good idea -- to deliver a proof of concept first!
>>
>> Did you think about how exactly the image(s) will be produced?
>>
>> Which library (if any) do you plan to use?
>>
>>
>> Also do you plan to produce (interactive) graphics on the fly and/or
>> create
>> (static) image files (such as .png) to be viewed with other software?
>>
>>
> If I can suggest a couple of libraries that should be used for this project
> I will say:
>
> - BioGraphics for sequence/genomic features display
> http://bio-graphics.rubyforge.org/
> - Rubyvis for everything else (a great library and fits perfectly well for
> web visulisation since it's producing SVG images)
> http://rubyvis.rubyforge.org/
>

I've read about the Rubyvis before, but not about the BioGraphics. Thanks
for that, it seems like a great lib. I am just worried that it could force
implementing two separate ways of creating graphics, with other style,
convention and so on.

>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> --
>
> Francesco
>
>