[GSoC] Bionode project at GSOC 2014

[Pjotr Prins]

Maybe some embedded Javascript did that :)

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 03:31:11PM +0000, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> Um, that?s weird.  That was supposed to say ?Javascript is the main selling
> point now?.  Odd?
> 
> -c
> 
> 
> 
> On March 20, 2014 at 9:29:28 AM, Fields, Christopher J (cjfields at illinois.edu)
> wrote:
> 
>     GitHub <noreply at github.com> 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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