Re: OUTREACHY APPLICANT
Hi Rudra,
On 16.10.18 19:28, Rudra Jaiswal wrote:
Hi,
I'm Rudra, previously I have done research on analysis on
vulnerabilities in android application and I have built android
applications my interest biological application is more related to
biology and yes though it more technical I would like to contribute as
much as I can.
To become _real_ biological you would need to find someone nearby to you
who is working somewhere in a biological lab. These days, these groups
_all_ have something that does not fit an Excel table and they need IT
help for that - DNA/RNA sequencing, expression data, molecular dynamics,
... . I propose you contact them. Once you have been there and sniffed a
bit of their vocabulary, you likely find something close to your heart.
For some more immediate success/frustration, there are several tools out
there with which one can inspect the human genome, or several human
genomes to find differences. A very prominent one is IGV
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/igv, which Andreas and Olivier are
currently struggling to get going again - with a new version available
and Java not being the Java it was a few months ago. This is very
technical at the moment and at the same time exposes you to some key
technical terms that you need to find your way around. Also, anybody
addressing sequencing projects, like with the Nanopore (which is a new
somewhat more affordable technology also for non-professionals) would
encounter what you helped to get going again.
Andreas, Oliver, can you somehow involve Rudra in what you are doing?
Otherwise I find something :o)
Cheers,
Steffen
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