Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Science and medicineOpen Source & Open Science in biological research
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11 records across 1 programIndexed project records; missing years are not zero. Coverage
2022Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Efficient data layout for mass spectrometry data (OpenMS)
- Feature Viewer - Enhanced User Experience and Performance
- Genestorian data refinement
- Journal tracker – finalise and deploy React front-end
- Migration of the backend to Express, GraphQL, and MongoDB
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2021Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Data streaming in scientific workflows, implementation for Toil
- Design and implementation of Code is Science front-end using ReactJS
- Developing WellcomeML further for the visualisation of academic research data
- Development of a user interface to visualise VEP data using neXtProt tools
- Enabling and prototyping JavaScript visualizations in the Qt-based viewer TOPPView (OpenMS).
- gtfBase- A curated resource of multispecies genomic regions
- Implementation of NEON functions (SIMDe)
- Implementations of AVX-512 functions
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2020Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Healthcare-Researcher-Connector (HRC): A Federated Learning package for bridging the gap between Healthcare providers and researchers
- Implementation of SVML in SIMDe
- Implementing user-friendly search features
- OpenMS R-Package
- Parallel Graph Traversal for Variation Graphs
- Protein sequence and structural analysis CWL pipeline for comparative biology
- SIMDe : Add implementations of ISA extensions (SSE4.2 and AVX512) and NEON implementations of SSE4.1,SSE4.2,SSE3,SSSE3 ISA extension
- Using DeNovo Sequencing to Predict Protein Database Suitability
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2019Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Add blockchain and hyperledger support for the ‘Journal of Open Data Publications’
- Add Variant Graph (VG) support to BioD
- antiSmash submission redesign
- BAM to ADAM converter on Sambamba’s base
- Interactive Yeoman generator for BioJS components
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2018Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Adding methods to cobrapy for improved constraint-based metabolic modelling.
- Backend Website Student Project
- Frontend Website Student Project for BioJS
- Implement the support for Research Object specification into Nextflow framework
- Improve Posterior Error Probability Estimation For Peptide Search Engine Results
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2017Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Adding Python 3 compatibility and improving mypy support for cwltool
- antiSMASH Migration to Template System
- Bionode-Watermill - A Streaming Workflow Engine for Bioinformatics
- Common Workflow Language reference implementation modernization- Making cwltool and schema-salad, Microsoft Windows compatible and providing complete Python 3 support for cwltool and schema-salad
- ETE/Tree matcher
- GeneNetwork Genome Browser
- Implement algorithms for the generation of high-resolution isotope patterns
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2016Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Automated tool wrapper/converter for CWL
- Bionode workflow engine for streamed data analysis
- GeneNetwork Genome Browser
- Improve the prediction for RiPP clusters
- OpenSNP
- openSNP: Extending Quantified-Self Support in openSNP
- openSNP: Linking Phenotypes to SNPs in openSNP
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2014Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- [JSBML GSoC Idea#4] Redesign the implementation of mathematical formulas
- Addition of a Lazy Loading Sequence Parser to Biopython’s SeqIO Package
- An ultra-fast scalable RESTful API to query large numbers of VCF datapoints
- Dynamic Modeling of Cellular Populations within JSBML
- Improving the Plug-in interface for CellDesigner
- Open Source high-performance Biohaskell
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2012Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Diff My DNA: Development of a Genomic Variant Toolkit for Biopython
- Multiple Alignment Format parser for BioRuby
- Robust and fast parallel BAM parser in D for binding against dynamic languages
- SearchIO Implementation in Biopython
- The worlds fastest parallelized GFF3/GTF parser in D, and an interfacing biogem plugin for Ruby
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2011Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- BioJava - Amino acids physico-chemical properties calculation
- Interface analysis module for biopython
- Major BioPerl Reorganization
- Mocapy++Biopython: from data to probabilistic models of biomolecules
- Mocapy++Biopython: Mocapy++ bindings for BioPython
- Represent bio-objects and related information with images
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2010Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Application on (BioPerl) Alignment Subsystem Refactoring
- BioJava Packages for Identification, Classification, and Visualization of Posttranslational Modification of Proteins
- Extending Bio.PDB: broadening the usefulness of Biopython's Structural Biology module
- Implementing Speciation & Duplication Inference Algorithm for Binary and Non-binary Species tree
- Improvements to BioJava including Implementation of Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.