GSoc 2018 Introduction: Ankit Lohani

Hi all,

I'd like to introduce Ankit Lohani, an undergraduate student at IIT
Kharagpur, India who is working in Google's Summer of Code programme with
us at the Micklem Lab in Cambridge.

Over the summer, he'll be working to implement a scaleable web crawler for
Buzzbang using the Scrapy web-crawling framework [1], to replace my
proof-of-concept code. Hence, one of the first tasks will be to look at
Federico's work in this area.

We also plan to continue Buzzbang modularization to supply components that
applications can use to find and consume Bioschemas markup, in addition to
the existing work of creating a simple human-facing search frontend.

I'm very pleased that Ankit is working with us and he already has a good
grasp of what's going on.  But if we could help him on this list with any
other questions he may have I will be very grateful to you all.

[1] https://scrapy.org/

All the best,

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Justin Clark-Casey, http://justincc.org
Research Software Engineer, InterMine, Cambridge
ELIXIR-UK technical coordinator