Thanks for the reply! I am very interested in algorithms, in fact this is the major reason for me to study computer science. I have taken some advanced algorithms courses in my school so hopefully that would be helpful. However, as I just started looking into the bioinformatics field, my biology background is rather limited.
For the sequence alignment code that you mentioned, do you think the improvement would be do-able in a month? I wouldn't mind working on it for longer if needed, but I would need to show some work to my professor no later than December in order to pass the course. Or if you think the BLAST output parser would be a better task based on my skills/time commitment, it would be fine as well! Thanks again and hope I can contribute in some way! Cheers, Kenneth On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 00:54, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote: > > Kenneth Lui <hkkenn...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I have read some blog post on the BioHaskell blog and took a look at > the > > biolab 0.5.0.1 source. I read from the blog that there is some > refactoring > > going on in the library. > > Basically, we have a new biocore library, and I'm hacking bits and > pieces out of the old biolib to fit them onto biocore. > > > I am wondering whether there is anything that I can > > do to contribute to the project? > > Unfortunately, we don't (yet) have any centralized repository or > bug/feature tracking, you might look at the biohaskell.org wiki, I know > I've sometimes jotted down suggestions. > > One imortant piece of functionality that could be ripped from biolib and > made into a separate library, is the BLAST output parser¹. This could > also do with some cleanup, and would make a nice, standalone project. > It's also fairly open-ended. If you're more interested in algorithms, > there's some stuff for sequence alignments that I was never quite > satisfied with. > > In the end, it depends a lot on your interests and skill set. Please > keep us updated, and feel free to post any questions to this list. > > -k > > ¹ Christian, didn't you do something on this? > -- > If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants > -- *Kenneth Lui*
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