[GSoC] Bionode project at GSOC 2014

Thu Mar 20 14:29:28 UTC 2014

Not terribly surprised; Javascript is the main selling point now.

chris

On Mar 19, 2014, at 4:12 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.prins at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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