Make your biological data shine! http://biojs.github.io See the summary of GSoC project. - Project Details Name: Interactive Web Component Generator Organisation: Open Bioinformatics Foundation Mentors: Yo Yehudi, Sarthak Sehgal Check out the project proposal and GitHub repository of the project - Project Proposal | GitHub Repository Overview BioJS is a library of over one hundred JavaScript components enabling users to visualise and process... Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-20-gsoc-wrap-up/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-20-gsoc-wrap-up/ Fingers crossed! - Recap In Week 11, I updated the demo pages and added developer docs. I also started working on complex viewer again. I also wrote a basic draft of the blog. This week’s progress In week 12, I completed the blog and asked mentors to review it, I will work on... Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-14-week-12-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-14-week-12-gsoc/ We are in the endgame now. - Recap In Week 10, I added the feature to run the generator with arguments containing the path to project directory. I also completed the feature of overwriting/renaming the build directory if it already exists and updated the documentation and tests for the new features. This week’s progress In week 11,... Fri, 09 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-09-week-11-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-09-week-11-gsoc/ You can see Week 10's progress now. - Recap In Week 9, I again worked on bio-pv to have a nice example of a web component. I also worked on a new component - BioJS Homology tool to understand the process of making new components and see if there is any scope of improvements. I finished this component.... Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-04-week-10-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-08-04-week-10-gsoc/ You can see Week 9's progress now. - Recap In Week 8, I stopped upgrading bio-pv and started upgrading complex viewer to a web component, I also added the primary option of installing (importing) component as npm package while upgrading existing components. I added the option to overwrite/rename the build directory if it already existed and solved some... Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-24-week-9-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-24-week-9-gsoc/ You can see Week 8's progress now. - Recap In Week 7, I upgraded bio-pv to a web component, fixed a minor bug, updated README and added instructions while running the generator and improved TODO.md. This week’s progress In week 8, I was upgrading bio-pv to Web Component and opened an issue in its repository but since it... Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-20-week-8-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-20-week-8-gsoc/ In the second half! - Recap In Week 6, I upgraded Cytoscape to a Web Component, divided the README into two parts - Contribution guide and User’s guide and updated the documentation. This week’s progress This week I upgraded bio-pv to a Web Component. Earlier user’s needed to write 40 to 50 lines of code... Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-17-week-7-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-17-week-7-gsoc/ Halfway down the road. - Recap In Week 5, I added unit tests for the new features, updated the documentation and divided the documentation in two parts, one for contributing and other for using the generator. This week’s progress Let’s go back in time a little bit. So, in March I was trying to upgrade... Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-10-week-6-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-10-week-6-gsoc/ After the first evaluation!. - Recap In Week 4, I completed error handling, enhanced validation for some inputs, added contribution guide and started working on the tests for new features. This week’s progress In this week, I finally completed writing the tests for the new features I added over the past few weeks, thanks to... Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-01-week-5-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-07-01-week-5-gsoc/ Before the first evaluation!. - Recap In Week 3, I completed the new workflow, added contribution guide in README and started error handling. This week’s progress I have completed error handling, enhanced validation for user inputs, added contribution guide and started working on adding tests for the new features. Tasks completed in week 4 1.... Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-24-week-4-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-24-week-4-gsoc/ You can see Week 3's progress now. - Recap In Week 2, I worked on the new workflow and added validation on inputs. This week’s progress I finished implementing the new workflow for making and upgrading components. I also updated the README by adding the Contribution guide and started working on the error handling and various improvements suggested.... Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-16-week-3-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-16-week-3-gsoc/ Week 2 was smooth. - Recap In Week 1, I added unit tests, finalized the new workflow and fixed few of the bugs in the generator. This week’s progress I started implementing the workflow that I made in Week 1 and successfully did it. However, the error handling was not completed and I noticed a... Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-13-week-2-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-13-week-2-gsoc/ So far, So good! - Recap Before the coding period started, I went through my proposal once again so as to plan my schedule and rethink about the features that I am going to implement in the coming weeks and how I am going to do it. This week’s progress I started working on the... Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-06-week-1-gsoc/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-06-06-week-1-gsoc/ An Interview with Nikhil Vats - This year BioJS has one Google Summer of Code student, Nikhil Vats, who will be working on BioJS Yeoman slush generator. We’ve interviewed him to provide an introduction to the community. We’re really excited to have you on board as part of the team this summer. Can you introduce yourself?... Fri, 24 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2019-05-24-introduction-the-gsoc-2019-participant/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-05-24-introduction-the-gsoc-2019-participant/ Setting up continuous deployment using Ansible, Docker & TravisCI Background Continuous deployment refers to the frequent automated deployment of code changes to server infrastructure without much manual interaction of the developer. It helps to provide a continuous stream of changes to a web application as they are developed and to... Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 http://biojs.github.io/2019-01-12-continuous-deployment-using-ansible-and-travis-ci/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-01-12-continuous-deployment-using-ansible-and-travis-ci/ The BioJS registry website has received some small updates We made some improvements to the registry website. List of changes at the bottom of this post. What happened since GSoC Since the end of the BioJS Google Summer of Code project Megh and Sarthak have been busy with exams and... Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 http://biojs.github.io/2019-01-06-new-site-updates/ http://biojs.github.io/2019-01-06-new-site-updates/ We’ve re-designed the BioJS registry We’ve had two fantastic Google Summer of Code students, Sarthak Sehgal and Megh Thakkar, working with us for the last few months. Over this time they’ve completely redesigned both the look (implemented in Vue) and backend of the BioJS component registry. We’re extremely proud to... Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2018-09-16-launching-new-site/ http://biojs.github.io/2018-09-16-launching-new-site/ To an ending journey and new beginnings! - Project Details Name: Frontend Website Student Project for BioJS Organisation: Open Bioinformatics Foundation Mentors: Dennis Schwartz, Rowland Mosbergen, Yo Yehudi Project Proposal: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S59h9plRUqsx6uL3Haq1rVn_7l_oMu1u Project Description (by org): https://obf.github.io/GSoC/ideas/#frontend-website-student-project-for-biojs GitHub repository: https://github.com/biojs/biojs-frontend Demo (expires Aug. 31): http://139.59.93.32/biojs-frontend/dist/#/ Overview BioJS registry is a platform used by bioinformaticians and researchers all over the... Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2018-08-12-final-report-frontend/ http://biojs.github.io/2018-08-12-final-report-frontend/ To a new beginning! - Important Details Name : Backend Website Student Project for BioJS Organisation : Open Bioinformatics Foundation Mentors: Dennis Schwartz, Rowland Mosbergen, Yo Yehudi Proposal : Project Proposal Project Description (by org) : https://obf.github.io GitHub repository (backend source code) : https://github.com/biojs/biojs-backend GitHub repository (Ansible playbook) : https://github.com/biojs/biojs-backend-ansible Live Website : http://43.240.98.213/ Overview... Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2018-08-12-final-report-backend/ http://biojs.github.io/2018-08-12-final-report-backend/ MVP is ready! - Recap I majorly worked on adding test elements to the website for ease in week 11. Few other changes to refine the website like npm URL of the component, link to the contributor’s profile, etc. were made. This week’s progress MVP is finally ready! Week 12 consisted of refining the... Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0100 http://biojs.github.io/2018-08-06-week-12-frontend/ http://biojs.github.io/2018-08-06-week-12-frontend/