My vote is with BLAST. On 8 Dec 2009, at 13:59, Niall Haslam wrote:
> Hi, > > Could we vote for these? I'd like to echo Andreas' call for someone to work > on BLAST parsers. Its never gonna be sexy but it is something that needs > doing. > > Niall. > On 8 Dec 2009, at 02:15, Andreas Prlic wrote: > >> Hi Martin, >> >> Thanks for your interest in a project. Our current TODO list can be found >> here: >> http://www.biojava.org/wiki/BioJava:Modules >> >> The part of biojava that probably would benefit a lot from some work >> are the Blast parser modules... E.g. we are missing a PSI blast parser >> ... >> >> Andreas >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Martin Petr <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I'm a computer science student currently in the last year of bachelor >>> studies and I'm looking for an interesting software project for my >>> Java course. And since I also happen to study molecular biology (I'm >>> just in the first semester now, so there is a long way ahead of me) >>> and I'm very interested in bioinformatics, I decided to ask here for >>> suggestions. >>> >>> Do you have any ideas for a possible BioJava related project? Do you >>> miss any functionality in BioJava that I could add? I have to say that >>> my knowledge of bioinformatics is very vague (although I have quite a >>> solid background in general computer science, at least) but I guess >>> that shouldn't be a big problem. >>> >>> I'm not talking here anything PhD level-like, not even BSc level-like, >>> it may be just some "boring" technical stuff that needs to be done. I >>> would just prefer to help and do something more useful, which really >>> can't be said about a zilionth clone of IRC bot or something like >>> that. :) >>> >>> I take it as a good opportunity to learn something about BioJava >>> itself, since it very well may be my tool of choice when I finally get >>> a chance to get my hands dirty in some research! In fact, that's why I >>> got the idea to help BioJava in the first place. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any replies and suggestions. Have a nice day. >>> >>> Martin Petr >>> Charles University in Prague >>> Czech Republic >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] >>> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] >> http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l > > _______________________________________________ > Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l -- Richard Holland, BSc MBCS Operations and Delivery Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: [email protected] http://www.eaglegenomics.com/ _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
