[Soc-coordination] Possible GSoC idea: Cloud images for bioinformatics.

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:04:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> 
> I would like to propose a bottom-up project with the goal of setting an
> infrastructure or workflow allowing one to build and use easily a Debian (Med)
> image where given bioinformatics tools are available at a version selected by
> the user (tapping in snapshots.debian.org or perhaps other repository within
> our web of trust if necessary).

Hi all,

I have written a stub on the 2013's wiki page.

    http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#Project_idea:_a_cloud_image_for_bioinformatics_with_Debian

Simply booting a Wheezy image and typing 'apt-get install med-cloud' definitely
does not need two month of full-time work (one summer of coding), and it has
already been mentionned that Cloud Bio-Linux is already distributing our
packages in cloud images.

I think that to be successful, proposals have to address other problems, in
particular the need for precise versions of software, or the need for images
that will happily crunch hundreds of gigabytes of data, or the need for
parallelisation of workflows, etc.

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan