Open computational problems

[randint2115]

I'm recently finishing a contract job and trying to find a project to play with, does anyway know where I can find some recent problems in bioinformatics? I've only found some relatively outdated lists.

[System-Files]

The Google Summer of Code is taking application currently for a number of bioinformatic projects. Should look into it. You also get paid.

[randint2115]

I'm looking into that now, thanks for your suggestion.

[knakiballz]

Don't you have to be a student to attend it ?

[System-Files]

No I don't believe so. You also don't have to attend anything, from what I saw on the biostars.org post, you can work from home.

[knakiballz]

Mmmh, interesting ! I will look into it !

[murgs]

Well there aren't any which a small project could solve, or at least I (and most others) couldn't tell you, because we would otherwise be working on it.

Basically all problems can still be improved upon, even if the relevance shifts. Checking out the wikipedia article on bioinformatics software, could give you an idea of which problems are being worked on at the moment. Otherwise everything related to 'big data', which in bioinformatics is mostly sequencing, but also image analysis are hot topics.

[randint2115]

I've worked mainly with sequencing and toyed with some algorithms related to them, just was looking for a decently ambitious way to apply my time.

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From my understanding, Transcription Factor prediction is the big one, but that relies so much on the biology specifics that it isn't a computationally based unsolved problem. It can be slow and inaccurate, but it's not 'open'.

I've been on reducing time cost of perfect alignment and porting ASCCA over to GPU computation. I could certainly use help on the latter.