The Genome Informatics group http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC, is taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) http://code.google.com/soc/ program. This year, the Genome Informatics group, will be organizing the joint efforts of Galaxy http://galaxy.psu.edu/, GBrowse http://gbrowse.org/index.html, Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) http://gmod.org/, JBrowsehttp://jbrowse.org/ , Reactome http://www.reactome.org/, Wormbase http://www.wormbase.org/, and PortEco http://porteco.org/. GSoC is a global program that funds student programmers around the world to write code for open source projects. More information about our project ideas and the GSoC program is available on the GMOD website http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC. If you are a student interested in coding for our open source projects, then check out the links above and submit your project proposal as soon as possible. The application deadline is 6th April 2012.
Robin Haw
Genome Informatics Group Admin