How you can contribute to OpenBayes

Open source projects, by their nature, are hard to get started. Therefore one idea is to build on top of BNT, which arguably comes closer than any other existing open-source package to meeting the project's goals. Specifically, you can contribute in the following ways.

• Implement old/new algorithms/functionality in Matlab and add it to BNT. This can serve as a "design spec" for subsequent translation to C. It is also much easier to develop new algorithms in Matlab. (Click here for a list of the features that I would like to see added to BNT.)

• Translate BNT routines from Matlab to C. (Intel plans to help here.)

• Integrate your existing C/C++ code into BNT by adding a Matlab/mex interface.

• Develop a BNT interface to BUGS, a Gibbs sampling package, and Hydra, an MCMC Java package.

• Implement a file parser for BNT, and/or some Perl scripts to convert between different file formats.