[GSoC] biocaml projects under O|B|F GSoC

[Ashish Agarwal]

Hi all,

I'm a bit late to the conversation. Can I still propose some Biocaml [1]
projects under the O|B|F organization or am I too late? I will have time to
mentor and have a couple of project ideas:

* Provide a high-performance client side visualization library. The code
would be written in pure OCaml and compiled to pure Javascript using
js_of_ocaml [2]. Thus it is an OCaml project, not Javascript, though
knowledge of Javascript will certainly be needed. If a student is
interested, we could also use FRP (functional reactive programming) to
implement the interactivity.

* Use Mirage OS [3] to implement bioinformatics algorithms scalable to
arbitrary numbers of VMs. Mirage code is written in pure OCaml. Actually,
I'm not sure how feasible this would be, and I would benefit from a
co-mentor with deeper knowledge about bioinformatics algorithms. This could
potentially be joint with the Xen organization, which was also accepted for
GSoC [4]. (Is that allowed?)

[1] http://biocaml.org
[2] http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/
[3] http://www.openmirage.org/
[4] http://openmirage.org/blog/applying-for-gsoc2014