Re: [Caml-list] Bioinformatics Js_of_ocaml GSoC project

[Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com>]

2014-03-03 18:11 UTC+01:00, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> Dear students,
>
> I'd like to announce a Biocaml [1] project for the Google Summer of Code
> [2], which is being hosted under the Open Bioinformatics Foundation [3,4].
> Please get in touch with me if you are interested! Feel free to propose
> other project ideas as I'm happy to mentor any project involving
> Bioinformatics and OCaml. See here [5] for an up-to-date announcement, but
> I've also pasted the announcement below.
>
> Project: Bioinformatics Js_of_ocaml Visualization Toolkit
>
> Rationale: OCaml is a strong statically typed functional programming
> language. Usually one does not consider such languages for front-end
> development, but the Js_of_ocaml compiler is causing OCaml to be more
> widely used for building websites. Js_of_ocaml compiles OCaml code to pure
> Javascript and the generated Javascript has very good performance. On the
> other hand, bioinformatics data analysis needs to be conducted by a broader
> range of users, which requires more elegant user interfaces with high
> quality data visualization.
>
> Approach: Write an OCaml library that can be used to visualize large data
> sets efficiently and interactively in the browser. The library should be
> smart enough to work on the client side when possible, but make server side
> calls when necessary. You may want to use Eliom for this purpose. You can
> connect to parsers and data structures available in Biocaml as needed. As
> demonstration of success, it should be possible to create genome
> visualizations like that of the UCSC genome browser and protein interaction
> networks like that of Cytoscape.
>
> Difficulty and needed skills: This project is for intermediate to advanced
> programmers. You will need to be already familiar with OCaml (or closely
> related languages like F# and Haskell) and have a basic understanding of
> Javascript and client/server programming.
>
> [1] http://biocaml.org
> [2] http://code.google.com/soc
> [3] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/
> [4] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
> [5] http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas#Biocaml
>
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Hi Ashish,
I'm not a student, but just an unemployed person seeking for a job.
Is it possible to participate to a Google Summer of Code ?

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Florent