[GSoC] Possible project

[Peter Cock]

Hi Brad,

Yes - that's the kind of thing I was getting at, although in terms of
the details Eric would be in a better position to judge as he looks
after the Bio.Phylo module in Biopython.
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/tree/master/Bio/Phylo

Peter

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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