[Biojava-dev] helping biojava

[Tony Power]

Hi all,

and, thanks for your suggestions. They all seem to be very interesting.
The background of the student is computer science. No biological
background, as myself. Only now I am becoming acquainted with all the
biological "stuff".

We (me and the student) are going to explore you proposals and decide on
what to work on. If we decide to work on any of the suggested projects,
I'll contact the proponent to ask some more details if it's OK with you.

If, meanwhile, you want to add anything else, you're welcome.

Thanks, once more,
Tony



On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:

> Just to add, Tony,  it would also help to know more about the background
> of the student (computer science, how much bio-knowledge, etc) ...
>
> > Another opportunity might be to port the new 2011 DSSP C++ rewrite to
> Java (http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/dssp.html).
>
> Interesting that you bring this up. I have actually been working on the
> side on something like this. It is not fully functional yet, so I never
> mentioned this. If you take a look at the SecStruc.java class there is an
> implementation that tries to re-create Dssp assignments. It is still not
> 100% exactly the same as the original. However having access to the
> original code would probably help to compare the details an resolve the
> remaining issues.  If somebody wants to take a shot at this, any help is
> welcome...
>
> Also: keep the feature requests coming. Another round of applications for
> the google summer of code will be coming soon. The earlier we compile a
> list of possible projects, the more likely we will be to attract good
> students!
>
> Andreas
>
>
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