We do not know each other yet, so I will briefly introduce myself.

I'm Chris, a Polish PhD candidate in Computer Science field at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In my work I deal with the broad concept of artificial intelligence. In particular the semantic web technologies (RDF, SPARQL, Linked Data) and the ability to support a group of knowledge engineers who create knowledge inside (semantic) wiki systems - in my PhD I propose some methods and prototypical tools for quality management, change management and motivation. I have also finished the Master's degree in Psychology and as a result I also deal with Affective Computing field.

I know, I'm quite far away from bioinformatics :) so, what I am doing here?

As a part of Google Summer of Code program I will prepare a tool to keep track of publications that reference a specific project (project's papers, tools, etc). I think that at the end it will be a quite good tool that any researcher can use for dealing with the task, regardless of the research field.

Specifically, it will be a set of Python scripts + GUI that will do four tasks:

1) performs database search for new projects (search terms),

2) handles alerts for updating the results later,

3) gives the user the possibility to manually annotate results (e.g. as irrelevant),

4) generates citation reports (e.g. list of papers that cite our project during last year).

If you are interested in such a tool, do not hesitate to:

* read the more detailed description placed in the project's github wiki: https://github.com/kkutt/references-tracking/wiki/Tool-Description

* discuss it on the Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/references-tracking/Lobby or simply write me an e-mail

We already have interest from members of the Galaxy, Reactome, InterMine, and BioPython communities.

I am waiting for your comments :)

If you are not interested in a project, maybe your colleagues are? :)

Best regards,

Chris Kutt