[GSoC] Possible project

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at drycafe.net
Wed Feb 26 21:11:41 UTC 2014


Perhaps such integration could even be the GSoC project idea.

   -hilmar


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:

>
> Peter and all;
> Seconding Pjotr's comments, I think it would be a good challenge to try
> and be more inclusive in projects we can work with. This is a good
> chance to have OpenBio get more mentors and contributors. Conversely, this
> is an opportunity for projects like Rob's to try and integrate better
> with the OpenBio community and code. As a practical example, from quickly
> scanning the source it looks like PartitionFinder has PhyML and RaXML
> integration code that could benefit from using Biopython's support for
> these tools, contributing back things that Biopython is missing.
>
> Peter, would adding contributions and Biopython integration along these
> lines satisfy your concerns? Rob, would Biopython integration be
> something you have interest in tackling along with your other goals for
> the summer?
>
> Brad
>
>
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Rob Lanfear <rob.lanfear at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> To clarify, I'm not a NESCent organiser, just a mentor who was hoping to
> >> put a specific project through NESCent. The link is for the project,
> whose
> >> title is "Automated partitioning for morphological phylogenetics":
> >>
> >>
> http://informatics.nescent.org/wiki/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2014#Automated_partitioning_for_morphological_phylogenetics
> >>
> >> It's a Python (and some external C programs) project, which does not use
> >> any of the Bio* projects. So the questions are really specific to that
> one
> >> project - I'm interested to know if this is the kind of thing that OBF
> >> might consider as a project.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Rob
> >
> > Given it doesn't use or extend any of the OBF's Bio* projects,
> > as it stands, I don't see this as a obviously a good fit :(
> >
> > Perhaps there's a possible slant on this I've overlooked?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
> > (OBF secretary, Biopython developer, etc)
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