{"id":1744,"date":"2015-03-16T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:40:39","slug":"new-collaborators-at-the-toronto-open-science-code-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/new-collaborators-at-the-toronto-open-science-code-sprint\/","title":{"rendered":"New Collaborators at the Toronto Open Science Code Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>This guest post from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbonsma\">Madeleine Bonsma<\/a>, genomics graduate student at the University of Toronto, and lead on Collaborate&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/projects\/pathogens\">Phage Parser<\/a> project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Science Lab\u2019s Toronto Open Science Code Sprint (March 7-8, 2015) was great fun and, in my opinion, a great success. The weekend was packed with\u00a0collaboration between projects, mutual encouragement and assistance, and a great supportive and productive atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by how quickly many people jumped into new projects and started producing results; I had the chance to work with <a title=\"Natchar Ratanasirigulchai\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/natchar\" target=\"_blank\">Natchar Ratanasirigulchai<\/a>, a co-op student at the University of British Columbia pursuing a combined honors degree in Biology and Computer Science.\u00a0 As a first-time code sprint attendee, I thought two days wouldn&#8217;t be very much time to get something done with people I&#8217;ve never met. I was very wrong about that! I now have a heightened interest in seeking out new collaborations with people from diverse backgrounds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":1yv\" class=\"ajR\">\n<p>I participated in the code sprint on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/projects\/pathogens\" target=\"_blank\">Pathogens and Disease Immunity project<\/a>. By the end of the weekend we had completed most of our goals and made good progress on others, culminating in a demo visualization of bacteria-phage interactions captured in the CRISPR locus. Find out more about our project and others on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mozillascience.org\/collaborate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Collaborate website.<\/a>\u00a0 It\u2019s all open, and contributors are always welcome!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guest post from Madeleine Bonsma, genomics graduate student at the University of Toronto, and lead on Collaborate&#8217;s Phage Parser project. Mozilla Science Lab\u2019s Toronto Open Science Code Sprint (March 7-8, 2015) was great fun and, in my opinion, a &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/new-collaborators-at-the-toronto-open-science-code-sprint\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}