Hi,

I'm Zheng from the University of Georgia. I heard about the GSoC several weeks 
before and found biopython also involved in the peoject. I plan to apply for 
the GSoC 2013, hoping to make some contributions this summer. I browsed the 
proposals in biopython wiki sites and find two of them are all interesting 
topics, especially the codon alignment functionality. I know this has been 
implemented by pal2nal, and pal2nal is a good program as it accounts for the 
mismatches between protein and DNA sequences. However, it may raise an error 
when the protein sequence contains * indicating a stop codon, which is typical 
when the sequence is translated from genomic DNA. Maybe I could write a python 
implementation that relax this requirement. Many interesting statistical tests 
based on codon alignment can also be implemented. As I am new to this group, 
can anyone give me some suggestions about what I could do while preparing my 
proposal? Do I need to read the souce code of some major classes in BioPython 
to better understand how it works as well as the programming style? Thanks.


Best,
Zheng Ruan
Institute of Bioinformatics
The University of Georgia
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