[BioLib-dev] Google Summer of Code project ideas

[Pjotr Prins]

Thanks Rob,

BioLib has been dormant lately, but I expect it to pick up soon again,
as I have an agreement with Peter Rice of EMBOSS fame to start
mapping functions. 

For BioLib there are three potential subjects:

1. Start up on EMBOSS bindings. This requires creating a new API, as
EMBOSS was not designed as an API, though the back-end libraries can
be used.

2. One wish of mine is to be able to call into the JVM. This is
hard-core stuff, but not impossible. It will allow the use of
libraries written in Scala, Clojure, Java...

3. Bindings for the D-language. D is something of a surprise.
Functional, concurrent and as fast as C. Exciting stuff. Bindings can
be done as D supports a C interface.

Remember, the idea of BioLib is that any mappings can bind against
Ruby, Perl, Python, and soon Java and R. I.e. I want to further
expand on the language 'bridging' concept.

Anyone else have a personal interest in one of above projects? I am
not interested in mentoring a student alone.

Pj.

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:37:23AM -0500, Robert Buels wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm going to be OBF project admin again this year for Google Summer of  
> code.  OBF's application is due later this week, and we need to update  
> our project ideas on the OBF wiki page and on each project's individual  
> wiki pages.
>
> So, for each of the OBF projects that wants to do GSoC again this year,  
> please:
>
> a.) Update the list of project ideas on your project's GSoC page  
> (BioPython, BioPerl, BioRuby, etc).  Add new ones, remove ones that have  
> already been done or no longer relevant, etc.
>
> b.) Update the list of project ideas on the main OBF GSoC page  
> (http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code) to match.
>
> c.) Let me know via email that you have done so and it's ready for  
> Google to peruse.
>
> Please have the updates done, if possible, by this Friday (March 11).  
> The number and quality of the project ideas are part of the evaluation  
> process for whether OBF is accepted as a Summer of Code organization  
> again this year, so let's come up with some good ones.  :-)
>
> Rob
>
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