[Biojava-l] GSoC project on MSA

[Gustavo Akio Tominaga Sacomoto]

Hello,

I'm currently a graduate student at University of São Paulo (Brazil)
and I'm quite interested in applying for the all-Java MSA project. I'm
already familiar with the multiple sequence alignment problem, I
developed a lossless filter for this problem as my undergraduate final
project, the work is described here
[http://www.almob.org/content/4/1/3] and there is an online version of
the algorithm here
[http://mobyle.genouest.org/cgi-bin/Mobyle/portal.py?form=tuiuiu].

Now, regarding the project, just to make it clear, when you say in the
"straightforward approach for building up the MSA progressively", you
mean the standard dynamic programming approach for pairwise alignment
following the guide tree built in the second step, right?

One last question, should I send my proposal direct to the Google's
web app or here first?

Thanks,

Gustavo Sacomoto