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GSoC 2014

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014, with 6 student projects funded!

2014 Student Projects

Sarah Berkemer

Mentored by Christian Höner zu Siederdissen and Ketil Malde (BioHaskell)

• Project: "High-performance Transalign algorithm in Haskell"
• Blog: http://biohaskell.org/GSoC_blog

Loris Cro

Mentored by Francesco Strozzi and Raoul Bonnal (BioRuby)

• Project: "An ultra-fast scalable RESTful API to query large numbers of VCF datapoints"
• Blog: http://kappaloris.github.io/GSoC-2014-OBF/
• Source code: https://github.com/kappaloris/GSoC-2014-OBF

Victor Kofia

Mentored by Alex Thomas and Sarah Keating (JSBML)

• Project: "Redesign the implementation of mathematical formulas in JSBML"
• Blog: http://kofiav.blogspot.ca/
• Source code: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/jsbml/code/trunk/core/src/org/sbml/jsbml/math/

Evan Parker

Mentored by Wibowo Arindrarto and Peter Cock (BioPython)

• Project: "Addition of a lazy-loading sequence parser to Biopython’s SeqIO package"
• Blog: http://evanaparker.com/
• Source code: https://github.com/eparker05/biopython/tree/lazy-load

Ibrahim Vazirabad

Mentored by Andreas Dräger and Alex Thomas (JSBML)

• Project: "Improving the Plug-in interface for CellDesigner"
• Blog: http://jsbmlcelldesigner2014.blogspot.com/

Leandro Watanabe

Mentored by Nicolas Rodriguez and Chris Myers (JSBML)

• Project: "Dynamic Modeling of Cellular Populations via arrays in JSBML"
• Blog: http://lhwatanabe.blogspot.com