GSoc Application

[RAJUL BANGANI]

Dear Mentors,

I am Rajul Bangani, a second year student at BITS Pilani. I am currently pursuing an Integrated Dual Degree in MSc Biological Sciences and B Tech in Electronics and Electrical Engineering. 

From the past 4 months I have been working on a study oriented project under the Head of Department of Biological Sciences along with a PhD Research Scholar on the topic Biomarkers for Ovarian Cancer in which we are trying to build a fluorescent probe to detect Cancer Antigens specific to Ovarian Cancer. 

My role has mostly been trying to come up with computational and statistical methods to simplify analysis. For this, I have spent a lot of time understanding and integrating Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases and trying to figure out how to extract information from it and also explored multiple docking softwares. I have also been coding in Python for a little over 3 years now.

All of this makes me confident that I have a good handle not just on molecular dynamics and the coding part of the program but also on understanding what are the diffuclties that come up during research.

I wish to contribute to GSoc by giving users an option to extract and simplify data from databases available online in addition to the tools that MDAnalysis already offers. 

I would love to hear your feedback on whether the idea is in line with the projects you are looking to mentor as well as suggestions or guidance to keep in mind going forward.

Thanks and regards,

Rajul.

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[Project Manager MDAnalysis]

Hi Rajul,

Welcome to MDAnalysis, and thank you for expressing your interest in the project! I will let the GSoC mentors chime in on your proposal to add features to extract and simplify data from databases online, but it may be helpful if you could provide a few more details about what you are thinking. You may also use our Discord server to seek feedback from mentors and other users/developers of MDAnalysis (join using this invite link). As the deadline for GSoC applications is quickly approaching (Tuesday, April 4th at 18:00 UTC), it may be best to follow these instructions for submitting your draft proposal through the GSoC portal. See here for our guidance on "How to write a great application."

Our blog post is the starting point for all GSoC 2023 things, and we have a FAQ. As per the FAQ, candidates must have code merged to be eligible to apply to GSoC with MDAnalysis. On the MDAnalysis repository, you can find several issues tagged with "good first issue", "Difficulty easy", or "GSoC Starter". Please bear in mind, you can only attempt one issue tagged as a GSoC Starter. Note also that we do not assign issues to people; we review the first pull request (PR) that solves an issue. Therefore, you can work on any issue you would like that does not already have an open/active PR against it. We also strongly suggest working on a single issue/PR at a time. Once you have one PR merged, you are of course welcome to tackle another issue, and so on. 

The best way to get started is to get your hands dirty following the MDAnalysis User Guide. We suggest starting with installing the MDAnalysis package and going through the Quick Start Guide. Other sections of the User Guide go into many more details about the different capabilities of MDAnalysis.

Once you are a bit familiar with the MDAnalysis package, you can look at the sections of the User Guide explaining how to contribute. There are detailed explanations on how to set up a developer environment and how to contribute to the MDAnalysis codebase. This is a great starting point for contributing to MDAnalysis and trying to solve some of the open issues.

Could you please provide your GitHub handle? This is helpful for GSoC mentors to track which applicants are working on which issues. While your PR is being reviewed, you can work on drafting your proposal. 

We look forward to your contribution.

All the best,
Jenna

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