Re: [cclib-users] Interested in GSoC Mentorship

[Karol L. <kar...@gm...>]

Hi Somesh,

In that case I suppose what we'd like to see in the application is what you
think the main goals of this project should be, and how you want to get
there. It's not immediately obvious how that paper builds into a
just-scraping project, but of course we're open to modifying the project or
even an entirely new idea, especially if it's connected to earlier research.

I would encourage you to try out cclib a bit in practice - try parsing some
logfiles, try looking for some online and parsing those. For scraping
itself, there are a lot of non-compchem tools out there that can be used,
and any demo code you can put together during the application period would
also be an advantage. There are also many compchem databases and
repositories already online, so it's also important how those would fit
into a crawler/scraper ecosystem.

I would also encourage you to look around at the other OpenChemistry
projects for a while, you might find some more projects that look
interesting to you.


On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Somesh Mohapatra <pik...@gm...>
wrote:

> Apart from enlisting, we can also go on similar lines as the following
> paper -
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> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-017-0055-6
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> This work is by the lab I am looking forward to join at MIT, so that makes
> the GSoC project a hands on experience prior to starting there.
>
> Somesh.
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> On Feb 20, 2018 8:39 PM, "Somesh Mohapatra" <pik...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi Karol
>
> Yes, that is the one.
>
> Somesh.
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> On Feb 20, 2018 8:36 PM, "Karol Langner" <kar...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hi Somesh,
>
> Nice to hear from you. Which project is the "content enlisting project"?
> Do you mean the cclib web scraper?
>
> - Karol
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> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:09 AM, Somesh Mohapatra <pik...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Karol
>>
>> I have recently been accepted to MIT for PhD in Materials Science, and
>> looking forward to be a part of GSoC over the Summer of 2018. I have
>> earlier worked on Computational Materials Science and simulations for my
>> projects (Resume, attached), and then on Bioinformatics and Computational
>> Biology.
>>
>> I am looking forward to hone my coding skills and contribute to the
>> Computational Chemistry content enlisting project. I am open to
>> understanding other projects as well, if you see that based on my skillset,
>> I would be a better fit in another work.
>>
>> Looking forward to discuss more on the possibilities!
>>
>> Somesh Mohapatra
>> Graduate Student (Fall 18)
>> Department of Materials Science and Engineering
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> Contact - +91 7060 33 45 66
>> E-Mail - pik...@gm...
>> Website - someshmohapatra.in
>> ᐧ
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