[Biococoa-dev] BioCocoa homepage

[Peter Schols]

Hi Alex,

The abstract sounds very good!
Please let me know if you need any help with the poster.

best wishes,

Peter



On 02 Jul 2006, at 13:39, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I registered for a poster session at the WWDC using the following  
> abstract (a slight adaption from what we used last year).
>
> Organization/Affiliation
>
> The BioCocoa project at bioinformatics.org
>
> Title of Poster
>
> BioCocoa – A Cocoa framework for handling and manipulating  
> biological sequences
>
> Abstract Text
>
> BioCocoa is an opensource Cocoa framework for bioinformatics  
> written in Objective-C. We intend to provide Cocoa programmers with  
> a full suite of tools for handling and manipulating biological  
> sequence information. Initially started as framework to read and  
> write the plethora of available sequence file formats, we work to  
> make BioCocoa a more general bioframework leveraging the power of  
> the objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks. Eventually, we  
> aspire to become siblings of OpenBio.org projects like BioJava,  
> BioPerl, and BioRuby. We will discuss the framework structure and  
> layout, its design principles, current status and future plans, and  
> will show examples of applications that already use the BioCocoa  
> framework.
>
> URL: http://www.bioinformatics.org/biococoa/
>
>
>> So what's going to be on the poster? Just a copy of the website,  
>> or some more stuff. For instance a screenshot of apps that use  
>> BioCocoa.
>
> After my trip next week back to Holland I'll try to wrap up some  
> ideas into a draft poster that we can work further on.
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
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