[BioRuby] looking for a cool project to do using bioruby

[Sohel Merchant]

Hi Toph,
  I would say one of fun things to implement in Ruby would be Ontology
visualization. The tool could be used to visualize any kind of ontology such
as GO. It would be cool if this could be integrated in to a Rails app. Look
at QuickGo which visualizes the Gene Ontology

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ego/DisplayGoTerm?id=GO:0042351

Hope this helps. Let me know if you any questions.

Cheers,
Sohel.



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[mailto:bioruby-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Topher Cyll
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:23 PM
To: bioruby at lists.open-bio.org
Subject: [BioRuby] looking for a cool project to do using bioruby

Hi BioRubyers,

I'm a long time reader of this list, but I think this might be my first
post.

I'm in the process of writing a Ruby project book.  Each chapter
guides the reader through a new and unusual project they can code in
Ruby. For comparison, in other chapters we do things like compose
music, build a game, run simulations, implement Lisp, etc.

I'd really like to include a project using BioRuby (since I think a
lot of Rubyists would find it exciting).  But with only one
undergraduate bio-informatics class under my belt, I'm a little stuck
on ideas for fun and interesting projects.

So I thought I'd ask the experts!

Can anyone think of a fun, interesting use for BioRuby that I could
walk readers through?  I like to have each project produce a final
product, instead of just doing a tutorial, so I'm looking for a idea
that would have some implementation work, but wouldn't be too, too
difficult.

Any ideas?
Toph
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