Looks pretty nice.  You might want to have some commentary about commitment
to open licensing of contributions.  Other possible project areas --
classes for gene models, convenient translation from familiar gene names to
gene model range structures, simplification of cross-organism nomenclature,
perhaps linking to GSEABase infrastructure (i had a query yesterday on
mouse to human symbols, and the solution will be based on a text file
curated at jackson lab, although our inparanoid mappings could do it --
with some gaps) -- you have to do symbol to entrez to ensembl to inparanoid
and back out again, and clean vectorized solutions to these multistep tasks
should be available in a number of domains.  simplifying snp-gene maps
would also be relatively simple and would probably get use.  general
problem of retrieving functional annotation of the genome,   allowing
relatively high-level specification of the function type (e.g., get ctcf
binding sites in a given region -- the task is to define heuristics or
option-sets to find the required track and obtain the information in a
range structure, perhaps using ucsc tracks or other providers)



On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Paul Shannon <pshannon@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Dear Bioc-devel,
>
> We announce a new feature of the Bioconductor web site, "Mentored
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>
>   http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/mentored-projects
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> with this overview:
>
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