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The Big Effects of Short-term Efforts: Mentorship and Code Integration in Open Source Scientific Software Cover

The Big Effects of Short-term Efforts: Mentorship and Code Integration in Open Source Scientific Software

Open Access
|Jul 2014

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Table 1

Biopython Google Summer of Code project list.

2009
Project A**Automated the searching, downloading, and parsing of specimens’ geographic location records.
Project B*Parsing, generation, and manipulation of phyloXML files to store information about phylogenetic trees.
2010
Project C*Improved data-mining biomolecular structure databases (Bio. PDB) by adding polar hydrogens to macromolecule structures and interfaces for model validation.
2011
Project D**Added a transparent Python plug-in interface to Mocapy++, a machine learning toolkit for parameter learning and inference in dynamic Bayesian networks.
Project E**Developed a Python interface to Mocapy++ to enable biomolecular structure prediction and simulation.
Project F***Added large-scale protein analysis capabilities to Bio.PDB and extended it to operate with protein-DNA and protein-RNA complexes (Enhancements to Project C).
2012
Project G**Added capabilities to represent sequence variation objects, convert them to and from common human and file representations, and provide manipulations on them.
Project H*Developed a standard Python interface called SearchIO that supports pairwise sequence search file input/output file formats used by a variety of bioinformatics tools.
2013
Project I*Added phylogenetic tree construction algorithms and functions for the consensus of multiple trees.
Project J*Extended Biopython to support new data types and analyses for codon alignment.

[i] Note. *integrated **not integrated ***ongoing integration.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.bc | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Published on: Jul 9, 2014
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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