Google-Summer-of-Code

Hello all, I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has selected 5 very capable students to work on OBF projects this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. The accepted students, their projects, and their mentors (in alphabetical order): Wibowo Arindrarto: SearchIO Implementation in Biopython mentored by Peter Cock Lenna Peterson: Diff My DNA: Development of a Genomic Variant Toolkit for Biopython [Read More]

Applications due 19:00 UTC, April 6, 2012. /wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Summer of Code program provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for bioinformatics under the mentorship of experienced developers from around the world. The program is the participation of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). [Read More]

Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2012! Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a Google-sponsored student internship program for open-source projects, open to students from around the world (not just US residents). Students are paid a $5000 USD stipend to work as a developer on an open-source project for the summer. For more on GSoC, see the GSoC 2012 FAQ. [Read More]

I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation has selected 6 very capable students to work on OBF projects this summer as part of the Google Summer of Code program. The accepted students, their projects, and their mentors (in alphabetical order): Justinas Vygintas Daugmaudis Michele dos Santos da Silva (2 students!) Mocapy++Biopython: from data to probabilistic models of biomolecules mentored by Thomas Hamelryck and Eric Talevich [Read More]

Great news: Google announced today that the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this summer’s Google Summer of Code! GSoC is a Google-sponsored student internship program for open-source projects, open to students from around the world (not just US residents). Students are paid a $5000 USD stipend to work as a developer on an open-source project for the summer. For more on GSoC, see GSoC 2011 FAQ. [Read More]

The Biopython team is proud to announce Biopython 1.54, a new stable release of the Biopython library. Biopython 1.54 comes five months after our last release and brings new features, tweaks to some established functions and the usual collection of bug fixes. This is the first stable release to feature the new Bio.Phylo module which can be used to read, write and take data from phylogenetic trees in Newick, Nexus and PhyloXML formats. [Read More]

I’m pleased to announce the acceptance of OBF’s 2010 Google Summer of Code students, listed in alphabetical order with their project titles and primary mentors: Mark Chapman (PM Andreas Prlic) - Improvements to BioJava including Implementation of Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms Jianjiong Gao (PM Peter Rose) - BioJava Packages for Identification, Classification, and Visualization of Posttranslational Modification of Proteins Kazuhiro Hayashi (PM Naohisa Goto) - Ruby 1.9.2 support of BioRuby [Read More]