<div dir="auto">Would this be a new software project?<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Michael R. Crusoe</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 21:27 Anton Kulaga <<a href="mailto:antonkulaga@gmail.com">antonkulaga@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Michael and Sarthak,</div><div><br></div><div>We recently got a student with extremely high expertise (several papers in good journals) in structural bioinformatics. We had a call with her, and she suggested a good idea that has nothing to do with generative biolearn project (GSOC project we announced on OBF website), but goes very well with one of our current projects (the project devoted to cross-species comparisons) by complementing it from structural dimension, it may also produce quite useful OSS code.</div><div>I wonder if we need to list the cross-species direction in the OBF project_ideas google docs or it is just enough for her to apply with her idea despite its unrelatedness to Generative biolearn project?</div><div>She also asked me to ask OBF admins if there can be any issues that she works as a research assistant in the same institute (but totally different lab and no previous collaboration with mentors) as one of the mentors<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Sincerely,<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Anton Kulaga<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Bioinformatician at Computational Biology of Aging Group</div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">296 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, Romania, 060031</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://aging-research.group" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://aging-research.group</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 12:54, Michael Crusoe <<a href="mailto:michael.crusoe@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">michael.crusoe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 3:41 PM Anton Kulaga <<a href="mailto:antonkulaga@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">antonkulaga@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you very much for accepting my project idea suggestion, I am already getting messages/emails from students.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are very welcome, and I'm glad to hear about the quick response!<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>I discovered (some of the students complained) that I forgot to put my contact email to the project description, could you please update the project description? (I put emails as suggestions in your google doc).</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't have permission to update the website, but I believe Sarthak does.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Also, could you please clarify the further steps in GSOC? <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here's the GSoC 2020 timeline <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>From what I understood: <br></div><div>* right now we (as mentors) talk with students, interview them and best of the students write detailed applications of what they do in our projects</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Most importantly, the students successfully submit their proposals to Google.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>* OBF requests slots (how many students will get funded) and OBF admins make final decisions who of the students will get funded</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>First the potential mentors and the admins review all the OBF student applications and assign them scores in a spreadsheet. Then we collectively decided who we approve (with the consent of their potential mentors) and convert that into a number of slots to request from Google. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Once Google grants us a number of slots it is then a race to select students (who may also have proposals with other organizations). If a student is not available we are free to use that slot for another proposal, if agreed by the future mentors and the OBF GSoC admins.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Do I get it right? I wonder how many slots can the project have, what are the limitations? What is the process of the final selection of students by OBF Admins, how is it done?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is no formal maximum to the number of slots, but we will be penalized in the future based upon the performance of our students, and if we request more slots than we can fill.<br></div><div> </div><div>Final selection is usually easy and straight forward: we assign the slots to the previously agreed upon students as long as their potential mentors are still in agreement.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> </div><div><div><br></div><div>Also, I noticed that you have "Feel free to propose your own entirely new idea." , in such case can we write in the end of our project description that we will be grateful for any bioinformatic/ML project ideas ( even not directly connected with generative biolearn) that will be beneficial for biology of aging research?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, please suggest that text in the Google doc.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Sincerely,<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Anton Kulaga<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Bioinformatician at Computational Biology of Aging Group</div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">296 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, Romania, 060031</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://aging-research.group" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://aging-research.group</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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