GSoC Acceptance & Coding Begins!

This blog post has been long overdue. I received my official acceptance email into the Google Summer of Code 2022 on May 20, 2022. It was a joyous moment to know that all the hard work preparing for it had finally paid off. I'll be spending my summer working on "Creating Jupyter Notebooks Showcasing COMBINE Standards" under the National Resource for Network Biology organization.

Dr. König gave his best compliments and we charted out the plan for the next few weeks. I started working on the first repressilator notebook: using libsbml. 
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I created compartments, species, and kinetic laws showcasing libSBML using repressilator. This week, I'll be adding more features to it and doing a bunch of other stuff. Stay tuned for the next post!


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