*** Please disseminate widely to students at your institution. ***
*** Note: Phylogenetics standards are among the project ideas ***
*** and members of this Interest Group are among the mentors. ***
PHYLOINFORMATICS SUMMER OF CODE 2009 - STUDENT APPLICATION DEADLINE IS
APRIL 3
http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009
The Phyloinformatics Summer of Code program provides a unique
opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain
hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for
evolutionary informatics under the mentorship of experienced
developers from around the world. The program is the participation of
the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) as a mentoring
organization in the Google Summer of Code(tm) (http://code.google.com/soc/
).
Students in the program will receive a stipend from Google (and a T-
shirt solely available to successful participants), and may work from
their home, or home institution, for the duration of the 3 month
program. Each student will have at least one dedicated mentor to show
them the ropes and help them complete their project.
NESCent is particularly targeting students interested in both
evolutionary biology and software development. Project ideas are
listed on the website and range from hardware acceleration for
phylogenetic inference, to support for phyloinformatics standards
within the BioPerl and BioRuby toolkits, to alignment of next-gen
sequencing data, to ontology term markup for biocuration, to semantic
interoperability of web-services, to 3D-printing of phylogenies. All
project ideas are flexible and many can be adjusted in scope to match
the skills of the student. We also welcome novel project ideas that
dovetail with student interests.
TO APPLY: Instructions are at the website (see "When you apply"). You
can find GSoC program rules and eligibility requirements at http://socghop.appspot.com
. ***The 12-day application period for students ends on Friday, April
3rd, 2009, at 19:00 UTC (3pm EDT, 12pm PDT).***
INQUIRIES: phylosoc {at} nescent {dot} org. We strongly encourage all
interested students to get in touch with us with their ideas as early
as possible.
2009 NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code:
http://hackathon.nescent.net/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009
Google Summer of Code FAQ:
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs
Cyberinfrastructure Traineeships (managed separately from GSoC;
postdocs also eligible):
http://hackathon.nescent.org/Cyberinfrastructure_Summer_Traineeships_2009
To sign up for quarterly NESCent newsletters: http://www.nescent.org/about/contact.php
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Todd Vision and Hilmar Lapp
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
http://nescent.org
*** Please disseminate widely at your local institutions ***
*** so that we reach as many students as possible. ***
PHYLOINFORMATICS SUMMER OF CODE 2009
http://hackathon.nescent.org/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009
The Phyloinformatics Summer of Code program provides a unique
opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and PhD students to obtain
hands-on experience writing and extending open-source software for
evolutionary informatics under the mentorship of experienced
developers from around the world. The program is the participation of
the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) as a
mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code(tm) (http://
code.google.com/soc/).
Students in the program will receive a stipend from Google (and
possibly more importantly, a T-shirt solely available to successful
participants), and may work from their home, or home institution, for
the duration of the 3 month program. Each student will have at least
one dedicated mentor to show them the ropes and help them complete
their project.
NESCent is particularly targeting students interested in both
evolutionary biology and software development. Initial project ideas
are listed on the website. These range from hardware accerelation for
phylogenetic inference, to tree visualization within a wiki, to
alignment of next-gen sequencing data, to development of a reusable
ontology term markup module for biocuration. All project ideas are
flexible and many can be adjusted in scope to match the skills of the
student. We also welcome novel project ideas that dovetail with
student interests.
TO APPLY: Apply online at the Google Summer of Code website (http://
socghop.appspot.com/), where you will also find GSoC program
rules and eligibility requirements. The 12-day application period
for students opens on Monday March 23rd and runs through Friday,
April 3rd, 2009.
INQUIRIES: phylosoc {at} nescent {dot} org. We strongly encourage all
interested students to get in touch with us with their ideas as early
on as possible.
2009 NESCent Phyloinformatics Summer of Code:
http://hackathon.nescent.net/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_2009
Google Summer of Code FAQ:
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs
Cyberinfrastructure Traineeships (managed separately from GSoC;
postdocs also eligible):
http://hackathon.nescent.org/
Cyberinfrastructure_Summer_Traineeships_2009
To sign up for quarterly NESCent newsletters: http://www.nescent.org/
about/contact.php
---------
Todd Vision and Hilmar Lapp
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
http://nescent.org
