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

[Pjotr Prins]

Sounds good to me! These are the type of projects that attract
brilliant students.

Pj.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:52:19PM -0500, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> 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
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