Re: OUTREACHY APPLICANT
Hi Steffen,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:09:34PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
>
> 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)
Hmmm, no doubt that the work on IGV is important but on one hand
probably nothing a newcomer should become frustrated about and on
the other hand the subject contained *outreachy* and the outreachy
topic is writing tests. There are bugs filed and mentioned on the
outreachy project page in Wiki[1].
Rudra, please let us know if you have some knowledge about Debian
packages and how to tackle the task to write an autopkgtest as it
is requested in the bugs mentioned on[1]. A quite sensible entry
point is the Debian Med Group policy[2].
Please read this thoroughly and ask here if anything might remain
unclear.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round16/Projects/CIforDebianMed
[2] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/
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