Project Wrapup

Yes! It's almost over. GSoC 2016 is in the final week of the journey. So in this post, I will briefly explain the work I've done along with a link to each deliverable. Summary For this project I have implemented

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Comments Track Implementation - 2 : Components

Hey, this post is about a very interesting part of my project. That’s about the model details of the components associated with the comments track that I implemented. I will explain how these components are wired together and how they

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Comments Track Implementation - 1 : Analysis

Requirement Analysis After several discussions, my mentors and I decided to create a comments track on JBrowse to display thread links as comment boxes. Following facts were considered as the design considerations for the comments track.  1. Specifying a region

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DISQUS - The chosen platform

When it came to choosing the comment platform to be used for the JBrowse Comments Track feature, it was hard to choose between Facebook comments and DISQUS comments. After comparing the features, stability, flexibility, compatibilty and administrative efforts, DISQUS was

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Hosting JBrowse on a NodeJs Server

JBrowse, according to its developers, is a fast, embeddable genome browser built completely with JavaScript and HTML5. You can download the source code and host it in any webserver. Often, apache2 is used to host JBrowse, as it is one

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Update 2 - Community Bonding Period

This post briefly explains about my progress towards the GSoC project following up with my progress update 1. I did a lot of experiment work and research during this time giving attention to the JBrowse code base, sailsJs, different comment

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Update 1 - Community Bonding Period

During the first week of the community bonding period, I followed the instructions given by google and did the non technical tasks including submission of tax forms and registration for a payoneer account. I was privileged to experience a video

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Welcome!

I welcome you to the blog I created to reflect my contributions towards the project, Lightweight chat plugin for the JBrowse genome browser. This blog is updated each week with a moderate description about the progress done during the past week.

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