[BioEdu] Open Source Bioinformatics Projects?

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Hi Keith,

It's a great way for people who'd like to enter the field to gain some 
experience.  Plus, most open-source projects are desperate for volunteer help.

I first point people to the 200+ open-source bioinformatics projects hosted at 
Bioinformatics.Org, of course! ;-) :

   http://bioinformatics.org/search/fullprojectlist.php

In our full list, we have information/database projects and not just software 
development projects.

SourceForge.net also has hundreds of bioinformatics projects, listed under the 
category "bio-informatics".

And, as David mentioned, you might want to consider helping with some of the 
larger projects hosted at open-bio.org.

Another place to look is in journals like BMC Bioinformatics and the 
Bioinformatics journal.  Every issue is loaded with descriptions of new tools, 
many of which could be licensed as Open Source (just ask them).

There are lots and lots of choices, so you can afford to be very picky about 
the subject matter of a project and the people who you'd be volunteering to help.

Cheers,
Jeff


Keith Callenberg wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm not sure how many people have already subscribed to this mailing 
> list, but I'm interested in joining a bio-related software project. Does 
> anyone have any ideas of where I could start looking? Google's Summer of 
> Code would have been ideal had there been something in this field.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith Callenberg
> 

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