Project 1: BioSyntax: Parsing biological file formats for humans with syntax highlighting

[abaghela]

BioSyntax: Parsing biological file formats for humans with syntax highlighting

A large component of bioinformatics involves reading and writing data in biological file-formats such as fasta, fastq, bed, gtf, vcf, sam, etc... While being easy to parse computationally, these and other biological file-formats are often illegible for scientists to read and write to directly. I’d propose you join the bioSyntax team and together we will develop a suite of syntax highlighting for bio-formats to be used with common text editors such as gedit or vim. This design solution will help researchers interact with their data more efficiently and gain better insight into the biological world. This project requires a strong understanding of regular expressions, an intimate familiarity with use-cases for some biological file specifications and a flare for human-interface design.

https://github.com/ababaian/bioSyntax

Team Lead: Artem Babaian | ababaian@bccrc.ca | @ababaian | Grad Student | UBC / BCCRC

[jakelever]

Hey team lead, we've been gathering Github IDs for your team members. We see that you've already started a repo for this project. So could you please add the following people as collaborators to that project?

fransilvion
Jwong684
alyeffy
lazypanda10117
Ebedthan
Ahmdeen

Once the people are added, it'd be a great idea to start a discussion on that repo with information to get your team members started (e.g. some small suggested reading, things to look up, etc). We will also be adding everyone to Slack and creating a specific channel for each project. This may be an easier way to communicate.

We'll forward on any remaining Github IDs through this issue.

Thanks, Jake
obo the Hackseq organising committee