Hello World - Week 1 - Community Bonding Period

Community Bonding Period

One week ago, an email popped into my inbox with the words, "Congratulations, your proposal has been accepted." Reading that acceptance message from GSoC felt like crossing an important milestone, confirming that all my efforts and late-night writing sessions had finally paid off. 

My name is Michael Gaas, and I am currently a 4th-semester bioinformatics student at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. This summer, I will be contributing to the Systems Biology Simulation Core Library (SBSCL) under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Andreas Dräger and Matthias König at the National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB).

The main goal of my project is to develop a solver-agnostic framework for constraint-based simulation and analysis, significantly enhancing SBSCL's flexibility and compatibility across modern computing architectures.

During this initial community bonding period, I have already started familiarizing myself with SBSCL research papers to better understand the current framework and begin outlining potential solution approaches. I will document my weekly progress here, sharing updates and insights as the project evolves.

I am very happy to begin this journey and contribute to open-source bioinformatics tools widely used by researchers worldwide!


Project Details:

  • GitHub Repository: https://github.com/draeger-lab/SBSCL (provisionally, until a new repository for the solver library is created)
  • Weekly Meeting Schedule: Every Monday at 11:00 AM (Berlin time)
  • Original Project Idea (NRNB Issue): https://github.com/nrnb/GoogleSummerOfCode/issues/259

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