<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Sebastian<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Le 6 févr. 2015 à 05:48, Sebastian Wilzbach <<a href="mailto:seb@wilzba.ch">seb@wilzba.ch</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear IPython developers,<br><br>(I don't know whether this mailing list is the correct place for this question - I am happy to proceed with this discussion on the appropriate place)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes this is a really good place to ask, I'll have more comment about that bellow though.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><br>I am one of the developers of BioJS.<br>If you never heard about BioJS: It is a very young project that aims to build reusable JavaScript components for life sciences.<br>One of the coolest projects that we have built lately is the BioJS registry at biojs.io<br><br>So why do I write you? <br>----------------------<br><br>Python and IPython are very popular among Bioinformaticians (e.g. BioPython) and we would like to make our visualizations components easily accessible for IPython users.<br>One example is that instead of showing raw sequences in JSON or a "pre"-block, we could use an interactive multiple sequence alignment viewer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From what I can tell, your component are mostly javascript, though I guess they could be use with non-python kernels. Hence I would suggest reaching wider like on the jupyter mailing list/google group (though it's still young) </div><div>an directly with other kernels. </div><div><br></div><div>(<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jupyter">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jupyter</a>) </div><br><blockquote type="cite">We have started to work on a similar project for Galaxy [1] and some time ago I opened a Github issue about the IPython inclusion on the BioJS github repo [2].<br>Unfortunately we currently lack the resources to concentrate fully on shipping widgets to IPython.<br>Hence we consider to propose a GSoC project which at least partially will be about this integration.<br>(As 3 months even with a learning period is a long time we could wrap some other widget-related issues from IPython into this project)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we are more or less in the same state, with a limited resource. </div><div>We will be splitting the widget repository as a standalone project in the next few month, </div><div>which should make contributing easier. </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite">So here is my question:<br><br>Is there anyone on this list interested in this project and maybe even in providing guidance as a GSoC mentor from the IPython team?<br>(I imagine that we would have one BioJS & one IPython mentor)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We wil be happy to help, I can't definitively say wether or not we can have a mentor, </div><div>but the situation have not changed a lot since the last requests we had, so I would expect a no. </div><br><blockquote type="cite">If you have a spontaneous idea or remark(s) related to this project, don't hesitate to let me know.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'll add that to our regular meeting, to see if we think of something.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>-- </div><div>Matthias</div></div><br></div></body></html>