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Open letter to ISCB regarding diversity in bioinformatics
Dear President Valencia, and ISCB Officers and Directors, The ISCB plays a critical role in our field, and I applaud the tireless efforts of the officers and directors. In the spirit of wanting to support the ISCB in shaping the future of bioinformatics, I want to...
Mark2Cure’s CDG doc set is ~90% Complete, please help finish it
First of all, a big and warm welcome to the Mark2Curators who have joined us recently! We’re very excited to have you and look forward to interacting with you in the future. By participating in Mark2Cure, you’ve joined a really … Continue reading →
Recruiting NLP-crowdsourcing-semantic-web postdoc or staff scientist
Our laboratory at the The Scripps Research Institute in beautiful San Diego, California is recruiting a talented individual to help us use crowdsourcing to push the boundaries of biomedical information extraction and its applications.
BioGPS data overhaul! More datasets, new features, and more!
BioGPS has overhauled all the datasets in our dataset library. The datasets available in our library used to come from GEO. Now, the datasets have been imported from ArrayExpress, which translates into some awesome new features to use in your research! Previously,...
Mark2Cure welcoming the awesome folks from DMNS
If you’ve never heard of Yo Pearl, the Science Girl, you are missing out! She is the super-cool, ultra-chic alter ego of Dr. Nicole Garneau (a super-cool, ultra-chic researcher/science advocate/educator/communicator) from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Over at … Continue reading →
Mark2Cure photo contest update, new doc set, and more
Alacrima–done! You did it! Now for that pesky CDG… Thanks to you, the Alacrima doc set has been completed. We’ve added a new doc set, but the CDG and O-glycosylation doc sets still need a lot of help. The CDG … Continue reading →
Alacrima doc set done! New video about Mark2Cure
At long last, the wait is over! Matt Might’s talk NGLY1 story and Andrew’s talk on Mark2Cure at the Stanford Big Data in Biomedicine conference are finally online! Thanks to the efforts of our amazing Mark2Curators, the Alacrima doc set … Continue reading →
Mark2Cure Subscription options, photo contest, and more
With Father’s day coming up and after meeting many inspirational Mark2Curators, we’ve decided to have a photo contest! The prize is one of three really lovely Mark2Cure T-shirts. Here’s how to enter: Take a selfie or a photo with a … Continue reading →
NIH/BD2K grant awarded to further develop MyGene.info and MyVariant.info
The proposal to develop MyGene.info and MyVariant.info into to a community-knowledge aggregation platform has been funded as one of the four projects to receive a Data Wrangling Award. Data Wrangling is one of four specific areas of need identified and funded as part of the BD2K initiative’s aims
NIH/BD2K grant awarded to further develop MyGene.info and MyVariant.info
The proposal to develop MyGene.info and MyVariant.info into to a community-knowledge aggregation platform has been funded as one of the four projects to receive a Data Wrangling Award. Data Wrangling is one of four specific areas of need identified and funded as part of the BD2K initiative’s aims