[BioRuby] GSoC participation without biology knowledge?

[Raoul Bonnal]

Hi Marjna, 
Pjotr is right but I think it also important to understand which are your
motivations and interests in Bioinformatics, and from your email it seems
you are intrigued by this field.
The general ideas is to have people contributing to the Bio* projects also
after the end of GSoC.

So please, introduce yourself and let's discuss about GSoC projects.


On 14/02/12 15.57, "Pjotr Prins" <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:

> Hi Marjan,
> 
> The idea is programming first. The biology we can help with, if
> needed :)
> 
> Pj.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:53:13PM +0100, Marjan Povolni wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>> 
>> I'm a prospective GSoC student and would like to ask a short question
>> before properly introducing myself on the mailing list.
>> 
>> I have no knowledge about biology whatsoever. Would I be able to contribute
>> to the bioruby project anyway? From the project list, the following project
>> seems to be a fit: "Support Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in BioRuby". I
>> do have experience with Bash, Linux and Rails, but like I said, I don't
>> have any experience related to biology beyond primary school.
>> 
>> However, I'm looking into ways to enter the field and this would be a great
>> starting point, if possible, of course.
>> 
>> Thx,
>> Marjan
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