[Biojava-l] A software project suggestion

[Richard Holland]

My vote is with BLAST.

On 8 Dec 2009, at 13:59, Niall Haslam wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Could we vote for these? I'd like to echo Andreas' call for someone to work on BLAST parsers. Its never gonna be sexy but it is something that needs doing.
> 
> Niall.
> On 8 Dec 2009, at 02:15, Andreas Prlic wrote:
> 
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>> Thanks for your interest in a project. Our current TODO list can be found here:
>> http://www.biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Modules
>> 
>> The part of biojava that probably would benefit a lot from some work
>> are the Blast parser modules... E.g. we are missing a PSI blast parser
>> ...
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Martin Petr <martin.petr at matfyz.cz> wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> 
>>> I'm a computer science student currently in the last year of bachelor
>>> studies and I'm looking for an interesting software project for my
>>> Java course. And since I also happen to study molecular biology (I'm
>>> just in the first semester now, so there is a long way ahead of me)
>>> and I'm very interested in bioinformatics, I decided to ask here for
>>> suggestions.
>>> 
>>> Do you have any ideas for a possible BioJava related project? Do you
>>> miss any functionality in BioJava that I could add? I have to say that
>>> my knowledge of bioinformatics is very vague (although I have quite a
>>> solid background in general computer science, at least) but I guess
>>> that shouldn't be a big problem.
>>> 
>>> I'm not talking here anything PhD level-like, not even BSc level-like,
>>> it may be just some "boring" technical stuff that needs to be done. I
>>> would just prefer to help and do something more useful, which really
>>> can't be said about a zilionth clone of IRC bot or something like
>>> that. :)
>>> 
>>> I take it as a good opportunity to learn something about BioJava
>>> itself, since it very well may be my tool of choice when I finally get
>>> a chance to get my hands dirty in some research! In fact, that's why I
>>> got the idea to help BioJava in the first place.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance for any replies and suggestions. Have a nice day.
>>> 
>>> Martin Petr
>>> Charles University in Prague
>>> Czech Republic
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