[Biopython] Announcing OBF Google Summer of Code Accepted Students
Robert Buels
rbuels at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 23:49:10 UTC 2012
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 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
mentored by Brad Chapman
Marjan Povolni
The worlds fastest parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in D, and an
interfacing biogem plugin for Ruby
mentored by Pjotr Prins, Francesco Strozzi, Raoul Bonnal
Artem Tarasov
Fast parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in C++, with Ruby FFI bindings
mentored by Pjotr Prins, Francesco Strozzi, Raoul Bonnal
Clayton Wheeler
Multiple Alignment Format parser for BioRuby
mentored by Francesco Strozzi and Raoul Bonnal
As in every year, we received many great applications and ideas.
However, funding and mentor resources are limited, and we were not able
to accept as many as we would have liked. Our deepest thanks to all the
students who applied: we sincerely appreciate the time and effort you
put into your applications, and hope you will still consider being a
part of the OBF's open source projects, even without Google funding. I
speak for myself and all of the mentors who read and scored applications
when I say that we were truly honored by the number and quality of the
applications we received.
For the accepted students: congratulations! You have risen to the top
of a very competitive application process. Now it's time to "put your
money where your mouth is", as the saying goes. Let's get out there and
write some great code this summer!
Best regards,
Rob
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Robert Buels
OBF GSoC 2012 Administrator
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