Last year the Programmeerzomer.nl sponsored one summer student to work on Bioclipse (see the announcement). The Programmeerzomer is much like the Google Summer of Code where I mentor Alexandr. However, it is much smaller and oriented at just the NL area: both the student and the mentor needs to be Dutch, but the opensource project does not.

Rob worked last year on a Ghemical plugin for Bioclipse (see this interview in Dutch). The architecture for doing calculations (the Compute plugin) is still being used within several other plugins. This year I got assigned two students: one for Bioclipse and one for Jmol.

I have no idea at this moment what ideas the students picked from the lists in the wikis (see the Jmol project idea and Bioclipse idea lists). There is a meeting scheduled in the 25th.

The ideas include:

If you have a suggestion, it would be much appreciated if you can add that to the wiki pages linked above. Make sure to leave a comment to this blog item too, announcing the new idea!

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2007/06/payed-summer-jobs-in-chemoinformatics.html.