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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Find cures. Saving children.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a non-profit research hospital dedicated to advancing cures and means of prevention for children with catastrophic diseases. With respect to Google Summer of Code, we're interested in building modern, open-source infrastructure upon which large-scale scientific analyses can be done (typically focused on bioinformatics or genomics specifically).

  • python
  • rust
  • simd
  • WDL
  • programming languages
  • genomics
  • developer tools
  • cloud

Project ideas

4 ideas on its 2026 ideas page. Sizes: 1 medium, 3 large. 1 mentor named.

  1. Python bindings for Sprocket's WDL tooling medium
  2. Plugin system for custom execution backends in Sprocket large
  3. Type-safe genomic interval library for omics large
  4. SIMD-accelerated sequence alignment for omics large

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

History

In GSoC since 2025, 2 years. Projects per year: '25: 2, '26: 1.

On GitHub

21 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Rust (13), Shell (2), TypeScript (2), C (1), Kotlin (1), Lua (1).

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital"
or ask your assistant:
"Which St. Jude Children's Research Hospital repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

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