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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The Open Genome Informatics team serves as an “umbrella" organization to support the efforts of many open access open-source bioinformatics projects for </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">Google
Summer of Code (GSoC)</span></b></a></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">.</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> Among this list of projects are GMOD and
its software projects -- GBrowse, JBrowse; Galaxy; Reactome; WormBase; DockStore; Bioconda; and others. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">
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</span><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Call for 2020 Project Ideas and Mentors:</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> We are seeking project
ideas to post and attract talented students to this year’s Summer of Code competition. If you have a project idea for which you would like to mentor a student, please contact Robin Haw, Marc Gillespie, Dave Clements, Dannon Baker, and Scott Cain (emails above).<b class=""> </b>You
can also submit your ideas </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><a href="http://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2020" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">here</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">For more information please refer to the <b class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><a href="http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC#Google_Summer_of_Code_2020" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">Open
Genome Informatics page on the GMOD.org website</span></a></span></b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The mentoring organization application deadline with GSoC is February 5th at 2 pm EST.</span></u></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">So,
if you are interested in taking part with the team please let us know as soon as possible.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Please forward this to others who might be interested in taking part.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Geneva, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">If you have any questions please let us know.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Robin, Marc, Dave, Dannon, and Scott.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<div class="">Robin Haw, PhD<br class="">
Reactome | JBrowse - Senior Project Manager and Outreach Co-ordinator <br class="">
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Ontario Institute for Cancer Research<br class="">
MaRS Centre, 661 University Avenue, Suite 510, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 0A3<br class="">
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