Improving the Bio-IT bot
The Bio-IT bot is a Mattermost chat bot written in Python using the
mmpy_bot
framework.
The bot primarily supports Bio-IT activities with notifications, automation and other functionalities of relevance to
the community.
You can find technical and user documentation about the bot on the GitLab Pages Bio-IT bot website, including a list of issues that represent ideas for its development. Some examples are:
- Develop a guide for configuring notifications in a channel (RSS feeds are already available) and provide examples of its usage, including
- notifications for new papers from Pubmed given a set of search keywords
- Twitter events from channels or groups focused on open science or computational activities
- Include games/trivia support.
- Add a knowledgebase to support storing and retrieving simple keyword and definitions or frequently asked resources.
- Implement GitLab API calls to assist with administrating GitLab resources Excetra
Contact person/people:
- Renato Alves | @ralves | renato.alves@embl.de