Dear Peter, On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Is this still possible (I was invited to a phylogenetic project but told > that it wasn't funded). So has the deadline passed?
The deadline for mentoring organizations has passed. I did not have time to try and see if we good bootstrap something for the Blue Obelisk. Though I think we're in a better position than the previous time. Now, it's time for students to propose something. Peter, a full list of projects is found here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2014 In the past, I was mentor via a non-chemistry project, KDE (one of the major linux desktop experiences), on a data extractor called Strigi. If you know good students (B.Sc/M.Sc *of* PhD student), please make them aware of things. For pathways (the NRNB project) there is a lot of potential text mining that can be done. This is done in our group by Andra Waagmeester. One area of interest is CYP metabolism (think xmetdb.org) and finding literature that actually gives information on CYP metabolism of drugs is hard to access and assess. For example, I am now trying to figure out how they determined the CYP metabolism of the 2013 top 1 drug aripiprazole and after some initial (2 hour) gscholaring I end up with references to posters and internal reports, but nothing that tells me how they determined what specific CYPs are showing activity for this drug. A second area where text mining may interest me, is text mining of nanomaterial toxicity information. I drew up recently two biological pathways that may be involved here: http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Portal:Nanomaterials Here too, text mining as a starting point for searching literature would be very valuable. But, it starts with finding a good student, then contacting the host organization to find a mentor (the above two ideas I would certainly like to co-mentor), discuss the project with the mentor, and have the student write a good proposal, and hope it gets selected... Egon -- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
