[GSoC] GSoC 2014 BioRuby

[Razvan Florea]

Hello,

My name is Razvan Florea and am studying Computing Science at University of
Groningen, Netherlands.
I am writing this to show my interest for the BioRuby gsoc project: "An
ultra-fast scalable RESTful API to query large numbers of genomic
variations".  Currently I am doing my bachelor thesis project which is also
about developing a RESTful API.

As Francesco recommand me I took a look on the links there are in the
proposal text and at the proposal itself and so far I understood that the
basic idea of the project is to replace the manipulation of information
from VCF files with manipulation of information from a database which will
reside on an web service. Am I right?
If yes, what do you expect from the API to be capable to do? Retrieving
"json"s with information is ok? Or is more than that?

Also, Rails over JRuby could be a good choice of technology for developing
the web service?

Please give me any information you think it could be helpful for me.

Thank you,
Razvan