This sounds great. I was speaking with some of the local faculty here (at Georgia Tech) about hosting this "Project Mendel" idea, since there seemed to be alot of interest. However, I am very keen on leveraging the existing community support at Biostar, or perhaps even the infrastructure, to advance this project. I have already received a number of emails with some pretty nice questions, and have written up a short guide as to what I imagine these questions might look like. I am very eager to see version 0.1, and would be happy to help out in its development.
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Very interesting concept! Want to name it Project Mandel, after the 'father of modern genetics'? :)
Eric, you mean Mendel :-)
I would definitely favour such a project as well. Am learning a new language at the moment and did some of the Euler problems, but they bear little to no use for my day-to-day work.
Mmm... of course :)
Agreed, maybe also something where solutions could be posted in different languages like rosettacode.org
Ahah! Of course :)
Is the Project Euler site using an easy to reuse template? Otherwise, what could be a good (maybe open) template for such a site?
Pierre: of course, my mistake... Is the Project Euler site using an easy to reuse template? Otherwise, what could be a good (maybe open) template for such a site?
I would find this site interesting if no external library was used. For "How do you read a Fasta file using PERL?" : i don't want to see "just use BioPerl", show me the CODE !
Great idea Gabriel! I like the idea of calling it project Mendel.
I'm sure there only needs to be a leader for this project to gain interest. I do think that a wiki page for would be a very good starting point to collect both ideas and problems, which the project leader could use to build the site. I would definitely love to try myself against the problems of Project Mendel lol. It would give us the occasion to try that new language we are learning on something else than algorithms for finding prime numbers :)
A more worth name would be 'project Dayhoff', in the name of one of the first bioinformaticians. Mendel was not a bioinformatician :-)
What are you asking here exactly? Do you want us to point you to projects similar to Euler for bioinformaticians, or you want to create one yourself?
I feel the bioinformatics students' community will be elated to have such a thing :-)
I'm with JRS - I think if we come up with a list of bioinformatics problems of increasing difficulty, showing analogous solutions in as many languages as viable would be a great resource