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Open Genome Informatics

Open access genomics and bioinformatics projects

The Open Genome Informatics group represents an umbrella organization consisting of several open source and open access genomics and bioinformatics projects worldwide. Our goals are to develop and maintain a collection of sustainable software tools for managing, analyzing, visualizing, storing, and disseminating genomic data.

python
react
r-project
graph
angular

genomics
bioinformatics
biology
data discovery

Project ideas

6 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 6 that state a difficulty: 5 medium, 1 hard. 6 mentors named.

MP-BioPath Perturation Analysis / Stein Lab medium
Patient-Facing Clinical Trial Chatbot with Interactive Map / Stein and Pai Labs medium
Pathway Reasoning with LLM / Stein Lab medium
Reactome MCP / Stein Lab medium
Development and Validation of an AI System for Real-Time Detection of Pediatric ENT Health Trends on hard
Improving Reactome Pathway Analysis with an Interactive Visualization and AI Explanation Layer (Reac medium

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 7 years. Projects per year: '16: 6, '17: 8, '20: 5, '21: 6, '22: 2, '23: 1, '26: 3.

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

Website: http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC
Ideas page: https://gmod.org/wiki/GSOC_Project_Ideas_2026
Contributor guide: http://gmod.org/wiki/GSoC
Source code: http://gmod.org/wiki/Source_Code_Repositories
Email: rhaw@oicr.on.ca
Email: awright@oicr.on.ca
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/genome-informatics

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Open Genome Informatics" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Open Genome Informatics"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Open Genome Informatics"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Open Genome Informatics repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.