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My project started off with the idea of making the species (host) and gene (guest) tree mappings used my evolutionary biologists more interoperable between software platforms. At first, we thought we might kick off a new standardization, but it turned out we were just going to build a template on an existing set of standards [...]

The first goal of my GSOC project is to define a viable XML representation of gene tree reconciliations so that I can then implement support for this new “standard” in both a standard library, and the iPlant (umbrella organization) software that NESCent researchers have been developing for phyloinformatics. Today I presented my colleagues at NESCent [...]

2011 NYC GSOC meetup at Google NYC HQ, a photo by obscurite on Flickr. This afternoon I met up with some fellow GSOC’ers and a couple of cool googlers for a tour of the main google NYC HQ. The building, with one of the largest footprints in manhattan at 111 Eighth Avenue, is the former [...]