National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Phyloinformatics Group Preferred license: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
The NESCent Phyloinformatics group is a partnership of the NESCent Informatics program with developers from a number of widely popular open-source life-science programming toolkits (BioPerl, Biojava, Biopython, Bioruby, BioSQL; collectively referred to as the Bio* projects, see http://www.open-bio.org) and software tools for phylogenetic analysis. This resulted in the first ever Phyloinformatics Hackathon (http://phyloinformatics.net/Phylohackathon_1) held in Durham, NC, in December 2006. The objective of the group is to further seamless interoperability and the consistent support of data exchange standards in all areas of evolutionary bioinformatics.
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), is an NSF-funded center located in Durham, NC. Its overall mission is to facilitate synthetic research aimed at addressing fundamental questions in evolution. Synthetic research uses existing primary data from previously published studies and other sources to combine them in new and intelligent ways to address questions of broad significance.
At the core of the mission of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF), the umbrella organization for the Bio* projects is the promotion of open-source software development in the field of bioinformatics.
Actual source code produced by the student
participants in Google Summer of Code™ for National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Phyloinformatics Group can be found
here.
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A PERL based Command Line Interface to a Topological Query Application for BioSQL in Support of High Throughput Classification and Analysis of LTR Retrotransposons in Plant Genomes
by James Estill, mentored by Hilmar Lapp
by Michael D. Nowak, mentored by Derrick Zwickl
by Lars Barquist, mentored by Ian Holmes
by Bohyun Lee, mentored by Richard Holland
by Carlos David Suárez Pascal, mentored by Mark Holder
by Jason Caravas, mentored by Rutger Aldo Vos
by Hisanaga Okada, mentored by Lincoln Stein
by Gregory Jordan, mentored by William H. Piel
by Yi-Hsin Erica Tsai, mentored by David Kidd
by James Leung, mentored by Suzanna Lewis
by Klaas Hartmann, mentored by Tobias Thierer
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