https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5111396454...
it's a Java backend with massive D3 frontend and import tools in Python. There is a lot of issues at https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal
And contributing is really smooth, the core developers reply fast and are easy-going. Your github looks like you're interested in testing and that's one area cbioportal is quite lacking. Might be worth a shot.
EDIT: Ozvi se, kdybys potreboval pomoc ;)
https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/labels/friendliness%...
We're building a framework for analyzing massive genetic on Spark:
https://github.com/broadinstitute/hail
I'm a software engineer/mathematician, but we're embedded in a world-class genetics research lab. The first paper using Hail was put out recently:
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/06/050195
with more in the pipeline. Hail is being used to analyze some of the largest genetic datasets out there (hundreds of thousands of exomes and tens of thousands of whole genomes). There's tons to do. Jump in or email me (see my profile) if you'd like to get involved.
If you want to offer your services as a programmer to the biology community, there are several open source projects out there to develop LIMS (lab information systems), user friendly interfaces to many common analysis tools, and web portals for various research communities to share biological data. I wouldn't consider any of this to be 'computational biology', however.
It's a common misconception that computational biology (or bioinformatics, or whatever you want to call it) = biology + software development. While it's true that the biological research needs more software developers to build the infrastructure necessary to manage and access a growing amount of biological data, that's not the role of computational biologists.
The computational biologist is just a biologist who uses computational methods as opposed to traditional laboratory methods. Some may not even write that much code, and the code they do write may not even equate to 'software'. The skill set involves algorithms, statistics, and AI much more than software engineering.
Here are a couple of great biological scientific topics that are used by a lot of researchers that could always use some help if you find one that is active and to your liking:
- https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ImageJ
- https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Entrez&type=Repos...
- https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Uniprot&type=Repo...
- https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=particle+tracking...
- https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=genbank&type=Repo...
[1] http://fiji.sc/
I noted there were some bioinformatics project in the latest Summer of Code, but they seemed to me more like "let's think how to teach our undergrads work ethics" than "please, we really need this".