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Communication channels

Come chat with us at http://gitter.im/bionode/bionode or IRC (freenode) #bionode!

Ways to contribute to Bionode during sprint:

Very little or no programming knowledge required:

• Make sure all repos have the up to date special files (README, LICENSE, etc) such as bionode/bionode: bionode #38
• Make sure all repos follow the JavaScript Standard style guide: bionode #26
• Add missing documentation from READMEs and code comments to website: doc.bionode.io, index
• Add more lessons to tutorial: biohacker #1
• Finish the Personas and Pathways exercise: bionode #37

Some JavaScript knowledge required:

• Pipeline Graph (DAG) Visualization bionode-watermill #50
• Simple usage tutorial bionode-watermill #49
• Quickly create new bionode modules from auto-generated template: bionode #23:
• Make sure all repos use same label system and create script to generate them automatically for new repos: bionode #39
• Add insight dependency to anonymously report usage metrics: bionode #34
• Replace tests framework mocha with tape to work better with browserify: bionode-gff #1, bionode-fastq #5

Challenging issues:

• Improve bionode hackathon prototype modules in bionode-hack so they can be moved to bionode.
• Write data analysis pipelines (e.g. bioinformatics) using bionode-watermill
• Convert wrapper modules into Node.JS C/C++ addons: bionode-sam #3
• Prototype Common Workflow Language support: bionode-watermill #45
• Prototype Atom.io extension: bionode-seq #4
• Explore benefits of Nodestream for bionode-watermill: bionode-watermill #46