[GSoC] Possible project

[Brad Chapman]

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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