Hi Claudiu,
>
> My name is Claudiu Olteanu, I'm from Bucharest, Romania and I study at
> the University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, the Faculty of Automatic
> Control and Computers Science. I'm a third year student and I would
> like to participate to GSoC this summer. After I took a look at the
> projects list I decided that it would be interesting and motivating to
> work on Reactome Search project
>
> I will appreciate it if you give me more details about them and some
> advice that can put me on track.
>
> You can find my CV here[1] in case you want to know more about me.
>
Thanks for your interest in the Reactome search project!
We would like to use a Lucene-based search platform called EBeye to
search our database. It is currently being used for the databases at
the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), but it does a very bad job
with Reactome data, because it is not using any domain-specific
heuristics for sorting results.
You can try EBeye on this page:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/s4/
There is more detail about EBeye here:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebisearch/documentation.ebi
A full research paper can be found here:
http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/02/11/bib.bbp065.full
You can download the Reactome source code bundle from:
http://www.reactome.org/download/current/GKB.tar.gz
You will find our current sorting heuristics under:
GKB/modules/GKB/SearchUtils/ResultsRanker.pm
I hope this gives you something to get started on, please let me know if
you have any questions.
Cheers,
David Croft.