[Biopython] Getting involved

[Dragoslav Zaric]

Dear Peter,

I think that this:

"Can you program in C and are you familiar with the C/Python
API? We will need to look at porting our C code from Python 2
to Python 3, and this is quite complicated."

is best idea for start. I can code in C, and have experience both with python
2.7 and 3. Will read tomorrow about C/Python API.

Kind regards

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Dragoslav Zaric
> <zaricdragoslav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> I will first introduce myself. My name is Dragoslav Zaric, I am from
>> country Serbia, capital city Belgrade. I am currently located in Abu
>> Dhabi, UAE, working as professional programmer. I have Master
>> degree in Astrophysics and I work as professional programmer
>> for more than 3 years.
>
> Hello Dragoslav,
>
>> I am not in the Bioinformatics field, but I have enough interest,
>> energy and will to contribute.
>>
>> I have read biopython manual, so I have good idea and overview of
>> biopython framework.
>> Also I have good knowledge of python and django framework.
>>
>> I wanna start contribute to biopython project so can you tell me is
>> there some planned work to be done ?
>>
>> At first I can get involved in programming tasks that are not totally
>> related to genetics, like parsing of files, accessing databases ...
>
> There are lots of things people are working on part time, e.g.
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Active_projects
>
> There may be some easy to solve open bugs/enhancements
> on bugzilla,
> http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/buglist.cgi?product=Biopython&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
>
> You could also look at the (unfunded) Google Summer of Code
> project ideas - although those tend to be larger pieces of work.
>
> I would normally recommend you work on something directly
> useful to the biology you are working on. Clearly that does not
> apply here. I guess you want to do Python coding as a hobby?
>
> Can you program in C and are you familiar with the C/Python
> API? We will need to look at porting our C code from Python 2
> to Python 3, and this is quite complicated.
>
>> Also I have started to read AMAZING book on NCBI site and after
>> finishing this book I am sure I can start to work on genetic problems
>> in biopython. This is the book:
>>
>> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=genomes
>>
>> This also gave me idea how to start to contribute to biopython. Does
>> biopython have module just for searching NCBI bookshelf and books,
>> like library module ?? Maybe I can start to work on this module ??
>
> I think you can use the NCBI Entrez API here with "Books" as the
> database (see Biopython module Bio.Entrez). You could try this,
> and maybe write a cookbook example for our wiki.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Peter
>



-- 
Dragoslav Zaric

Professional Programmer
MSc Astrophysics