Galaxy folks; Would y'all be interested in writing up a Galaxy proposal for Google's Summer of Code? NESCent is planning to apply for the program this year; they've been a mentoring organization for the last 3 years, sponsoring students to work on phyloinformatics code, and I was involved last year as a mentor. Here is some background from last year's projects: https://www.nescent.org/wg_phyloinformatics/Phyloinformatics_Summer_of_Code_... They are starting now to get together the application for 2010, and one of the first steps in that process is generating proposals that students can apply for. I was thinking of including a proposal for integrating additional phylogenetic tools into Galaxy, and wanted to gauge your interest. Right now this is at the brainstorming level, but the general idea would be to build off of the tools already present for metagenome analysis. This could include anything from writing up XML files to include additional stand alone phylogenetic programs, coding up scripts or workflows to automate common analyses, and integrating visualization tools for trees like the InfoVis toolkit: http://thejit.org/ What do you think? If we get accepted and move forward it would be great to have someone from the Galaxy team to help with both formulating the project plans and mentoring during the summer. It's a great opportunity to have an excellent student working on Galaxy full time during the summer. Brad