Google Summer of Code 2012

2012 Mentor Volunteers and Project Ideas

Mentor names and project ideas are hosted on each member project's wiki on a dedicated Google Summer of Code page. See each of the member projects, linked below, for more details about any project:

BioPerl

• Lightweight Sequence objects and Lazy Parsing
• Perl Generic Wrappers for External Programs
• BioPerl 2.0: Modern::Perl, Perl6, and BioPerl
• Bio::Assembly updates
• Semantic web support

BioPython

• SearchIO
• Variant representation, parser, generator, and coordinate converter

BioJava

• Take BioJava into the Cloud
• New File Parsers
• Port an algorithm to BioJava

BioRuby

• Write the world's fastest parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in D, for Ruby FFI
• Testing framework for biogem plugins
• Extend bio-alignment plug-in with Multiple Alignment Format -MAF- parser (FFI?)
• Adding social networking functionality to BioRuby.org
• Update bio-images a plugin to represent bio-object with cool images
• Update to the Ruby Ensembl API

BioLib

• Mapping EMBOSS to Perl, Ruby or Python using BioLib+SWIG+EMBOSS
• Write the world's fastest parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in D, for Ruby FFI (together with the BioRuby project)

Note to students: project ideas on the wikis of member projects are only selected projects, albeit well thought-out ones. You are encouraged to propose your own project, just make sure it is still a contribution to one the OBF member projects (see list below)! If we like your proposal, we will try to find a mentor to help you with the project. Regardless of what you decide to do, make sure you read and follow the guidelines for students below.