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

[Peter Cock]

Hi Ashish,

Regarding Biocaml, the OBF doesn't yet have a formal project affiliation
process, but there is a draft here if you have any thoughts on this?
https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/unratified-drafts/Affiliated-Project-Policy.md

I presume you have some specific biological visualization tasks and
algorithms in mind? If so, then this could be made to fit under the OBF
for GSoC 2014.

With regards to joint projects with two GSoC organisations - I don't
think that is possible (although you may wish to circulate the project
idea to both communities to find co-mentors and potential students).
I think for Google's paperwork there has to be just one organisation...
but best checking on the official mailing list to be sure.

For the Miraga VM based project, perhaps talk to Brad Chapman
(who does Biopython, CloudBioLinux, etc) for ideas about potential
co-mentors? See e.g. Brad's blog http://bcbio.wordpress.com/

Peter


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2014 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> 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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