[GSoC] biocaml projects under O|B|F GSoC

[Ashish Agarwal]

Thanks! Glad to hear I can still participate. I'll add the project about
visualization on the wiki. I'll post the Mirage project later if I manage
to find a co-mentor.


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Ra <ilpuccio.febo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ashish,
> formally having 1 project and mentoring from two different orgs is not
> possible but you can always collaborate or contribute with Xen informally,
> we did the same with JRuby.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Ashish,
> >
> > Regarding Biocaml, the OBF doesn't yet have a formal project affiliation
> > process, but there is a draft here if you have any thoughts on this?
> >
> >
> https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/unratified-drafts/Affiliated-Project-Policy.md
> >
> > I presume you have some specific biological visualization tasks and
> > algorithms in mind? If so, then this could be made to fit under the OBF
> > for GSoC 2014.
> >
> > With regards to joint projects with two GSoC organisations - I don't
> > think that is possible (although you may wish to circulate the project
> > idea to both communities to find co-mentors and potential students).
> > I think for Google's paperwork there has to be just one organisation...
> > but best checking on the official mailing list to be sure.
> >
> > For the Miraga VM based project, perhaps talk to Brad Chapman
> > (who does Biopython, CloudBioLinux, etc) for ideas about potential
> > co-mentors? See e.g. Brad's blog http://bcbio.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2014 at thebird.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds good to me! These are the type of projects that attract
> > > brilliant students.
> > >
> > > Pj.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 05:52:19PM -0500, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm a bit late to the conversation. Can I still propose some Biocaml
> > [1]
> > > > projects under the O|B|F organization or am I too late? I will have
> > time
> > > to
> > > > mentor and have a couple of project ideas:
> > > >
> > > > * Provide a high-performance client side visualization library. The
> > code
> > > > would be written in pure OCaml and compiled to pure Javascript using
> > > > js_of_ocaml [2]. Thus it is an OCaml project, not Javascript, though
> > > > knowledge of Javascript will certainly be needed. If a student is
> > > > interested, we could also use FRP (functional reactive programming)
> to
> > > > implement the interactivity.
> > > >
> > > > * Use Mirage OS [3] to implement bioinformatics algorithms scalable
> to
> > > > arbitrary numbers of VMs. Mirage code is written in pure OCaml.
> > Actually,
> > > > I'm not sure how feasible this would be, and I would benefit from a
> > > > co-mentor with deeper knowledge about bioinformatics algorithms. This
> > > could
> > > > potentially be joint with the Xen organization, which was also
> accepted
> > > for
> > > > GSoC [4]. (Is that allowed?)
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://biocaml.org
> > > > [2] http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/
> > > > [3] http://www.openmirage.org/
> > > > [4] http://openmirage.org/blog/applying-for-gsoc2014
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