[Biopython] Google Summer of Code at Biopython

[Brad Chapman]

Biopython folks;
I am very happy to announce that Biopython has had two students accepted
for Google's Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/):

- Nick Matzke will be working on modules for Biogeographical Phylogenetics

- Eric Talevich will be adding support for parsing and writing PhyloXML
  (http://www.phyloxml.org/)

You have likely seen Nick and Eric around the mailing lists; both
prepared excellent applications and project plans, navigating a stringent
selection process. We should expect to see much more of them during
the summer as they will be working full time on the projects with
generous support from Google.

I'd like to thank everyone who submitted Biopython proposals. We
received many great queries and proposals, and it is a shame more
could not have been included. Many thanks are also due to Hilmar and
all the folks at NESCent for inviting Biopython to participate. We
are looking forward to a great summer, and beyond, for the projects.

Below are links to the NESCent main page, abstracts and full proposals; I
believe you need to sign in with a Google account to see the full proposals:
http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/nescent
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/nescent/t124022798969
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/etal/t123854016039

http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/nescent/t124022798250
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/nickmatzke/t123854590776

Congratulations again to Eric and Nick,
Brad