Google Summer of Code 2010

The OBF was accepted into the 2010 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program as an umbrella organization for all OBF-affiliated projects. Program Timeline.

2010 Funded Students and Projects (6 students)

Mark Chapman (BioJava)

• Improvements including Implementation of Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms
• Mentor: Andreas Prlic
• Mark Chapman on BioJava

Jianjiong Gao (BioJava)

• Packages for Identification, Classification, and Visualization of Posttranslational Modification of Proteins
• Mentor: Peter Rose
• Jianjiong Gao on BioJava

Jun Yin (BioPerl)

• BioPerl Alignment Subsystem Refactoring
• Primary mentor Chris Fields, secondary mentor Mark Jensen
• Project overview and updates

João Rodrigues (BioPython)

• Extending Bio.PDB: broadening the usefulness of BioPython’s Structural Biology module
• Mentor: Eric Talevich
• João Rodrigues on Biopython
• Project's Code on GitHub

João continues to be an active contributor to Biopython and maintains the Bio.PDB module.

Kazuhiro Hayashi (BioRuby)

• Ruby 1.9.2 support of BioRuby
• Mentor: Naohisa Goto

Sara Rayburn (BioRuby)

• Implementing Speciation & Duplication Inference Algorithm for Binary and Non-binary Species Tree
• Primary mentor Christian Zmasek, secondary mentor Diana Jaunzeikare