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BioPerl Makes Google Summer Of Code Cut
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-04-02
Google's annual Summer of Code is a rather big deal, bringing together excellent students from all over the world to work on open source software projects. And so it should be a big deal for the Perl community that BioPerl has been accepted into the Summer of Code 2010.
A post on the Pyrimidine blog recently stated, "The Open Bioinformatics Foundation, which also includes BioPython, BioRuby, and others, has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code for 2010. We are actively looking for students interested in OBF-related bioinformatics projects; new ideas are welcome."
As for what ideas are already on the table, there are quite a few. Indeed, a wiki page lists 15 project ideas, with BioPerl-specific ones including "Major BioPerl reorganization," "Perl Run Wrappers for External Programs in a Flash," and "BioPerl 2.0: Modern:: Perl, Perl6, and BioPerl."
So Perl (or at least aspects of it) may get a significant boost starting May 24th (the day students are supposed to start coding). And the final results of the Summer of Code are supposed to be announced on August 23rd, meaning all of the benefits should become apparent before too long.
This will likely prove to be a very nice way for Google to help the Perl community.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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