[GSoC] Bionode project at GSOC 2014

[Pjotr Prins]

Anyone noticed the latest JVM release comes with Javascript included?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 02:10:36PM +0100, Christoph Neuroth wrote:
> >it is very simple, just start,  and maybe create a google document, you could later share that document ONLY with mentors.
> Would love that but I still have to provide a week-by-week milestone
> plan by saturday... I'll create a trello board with potential features
> and share it:)
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Raoul Bonnal <bonnal at ingm.org> wrote:
> > I would suggest to not write yet another set of parsers in javascript, as
> > Eric suggested there are very good parsers as external tools
> Yes there are lots of parsers, but those won't help you when you want
> to do stuff in the browser, e.g. loading a file to visualize it could
> be done completely without server interaction if a 100% javascript
> implementation was available. Also, when building new tools,
> personally I prefer not to have any dependencies on non-javascript
> tools - this increases problems with portability, having to deal with
> different package managers and registries, complicates the build etc.
> Lastly, having robust parsers in JS would make it easy in the future
> to define a JSON-based exchange format (yes, one more ;)) that can
> trivially be loaded in all modern languages. Googling for "json
> bioinformatics" suggests great interest in such a format but no
> solution yet. It might be possible to define one with the knowledge
> gained from / at the end of GSOC.
> 
> Chris
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