Hi Keith, Please check the following link: http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/bbl026v1?papetoc The paper published in Brief in Bioinformatics reviews Singinificance and future scope of the Open Source tools and toolkits. May be helpful to you, Regards, Piyushkumar Mundra National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India On 8/10/06, J.W. Bizzaro <jeff at bioinformatics.org> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > J.W. Bizzaro > Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) > E-mail: jeff at bioinformatics.org > Phone: +1 508 890 8600 > -- > _______________________________________________ > BioEdu mailing list > BioEdu at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioedu > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioedu/attachments/20060810/c7407d85/attachment.html