Oh also, on genome formats: I’ve been doing quite a bit of stuff with domain specific languages / PLT stuff, as well as genetic algorithms and other swarm optimization approaches before. If you have any ideas that you want to bounce off someone or have some cool idea for some complex genome format that looks like it might be too much work, feel free to ping me—I might be able to help! (Ideally in a sufficiently abstract / altered way that I can still participate, but if need be, I’d give that up for a year too.)
I love this forum/community so much.