[BioRuby] My proper GSoC introduction

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:
> Hi Marjan,
>
> Thanks for the intro.
>
> Looks to me we ought to set you a right challenge :). With you in mind
> we are going to propose to write the worlds fastest GFF3/GTF parser
> using parallel D actors, and provide bindings for Ruby (and later
> Python). The parser ought to iterate through the data files, possibly
> handling information back through a simple filter.
>
> How does that sound? Parsing GFF3/GTF in seconds, rather than hours.
>
> Would be a true open-bio Bio* project. Peter, you like this?
>
> Pj.

We'd want Brad involved for Biopython + GFF, but it certainly
sounds like an interesting project. The D dependency might
make for some interesting build dependencies, but that is a
different matter.

Peter