User talk:ProteinBoxBot/Project proposals

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I'm thinking that we should apply for support through the Google Summer of Code program. This page will maintain the "ideas list" that potential summer coders will scan through. Obviously, the ideas for future enhancement will draw heavily from our ongoing "Ideas page", but the proposals listed here I think need to be much more specific and fleshed-out a bit better. Anyone is welcome to contribute specific ideas, and if you're really passionate, to be the "mentor" on your proposal.

Learning from what worked for 2007 applicants seems like a good idea. The participating organizations are shown here. If you click on any organization, there will be a link to their "Project Ideas" page. (For example, here is Google's own page. Others: [1] [2] [3]) That is what we're trying to replicate here.

The timeline shows that the mentor application period is open between March 3 and March 12. As an added complication, I will be out of town from March 6 to March 16, so I'd like to get this program submitted in the first couple days possible. Again anyone is welcome to contribute here! AndrewGNF (talk) 20:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey Andrew,

I'm really sorry but I don't have time to think about this before I leave for my sister's place. :( You can put me down as an, umm, enthusiastic programmer for any kind of project you all want to do. I'm pretty good with C and can do a lot of things with geometry, protein structures and protein sequences — check out the outrageously unphysical structures at Cyclol, that was fun :) — plus I can parse plaintext from random databases, as I did for the taxonomy and enzyme pages. Let's see, ideas.... I think there's no such thing as an Enzymatic Mechanism Database out there; we could propose to write software to produce atomic-resolution animations of all the major enzyme mechanisms; together with a clear text explanation of them, I'm sure they'd be a boon to befuddled biochemistry students everywhere. :) We could do the enzymes in order by pathway, you know, do all the enzymes in glycolysis, then those of the glyoxalase system, etc., etc. Or we could do them in order by metabolic disease or something that ties in with your human genes; I'm game for anything that you all think up. :) Back to hasty packing, Willow (talk) 21:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)