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BioGPS Featured Article – Constrained transcription factor spacing is prevalent and important for transcriptional control of mouse blood cells
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas--all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions of...
Why do people Mark2Cure?
Mark2Curators have been busy! Over the weekend, our volunteers brought the current beta experiment from about 28% completion to over 50% completion. We've gotten excellent feedback from you and are working to improve on the issues and suggestions you've sent us! Thank...
When Fingers Become Claws — #GeneOTW with Fingerin
As a profession that often requires a lot of precision fingerwork, “musician” isn’t the first job you’d suggest to someone with a grand total of four fingers. But for Lee Hee-ah, a Korean pianist, that hasn’t stopped her. This is pretty inspiring. Lee Hee-ah plays the...
The Mark2Cure beta experiment is 28% complete!
Our beta experiment is now 28% complete thanks to all of you. If you haven't joined the beta experiment, please join now! We could really use your help to finish this experiment. If you're hesitant because you don't have a science background, take the leap. You really...
BioGPS Featured Article- Multi-omic landscape of rheumatoid arthritis: re-evaluation of drug adverse effects
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas--all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions of...
Mark2Cure profiled in the San Diego Union Tribune
The San Diego Union Tribune did a nice little article on Mark2Cure, which helped us reach a lot of local citizen scientist volunteers. If you missed the article, you can read it here. If you joined Mark2Cure because of the UT San Diego, THANK YOU, and please help...
What’s in a name? Not enough.. — #GeneOTW
Last week, I read The Professor and the Madman, a fascinating account by Simon Winchester about Dr. William Chester Minor and the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. Dr. Minor was one of the greatest volunteer contributors to the OED, and he did it all from...
Help us reach our goal so we can help you!
If you haven't seen or don't have time to watch Andrew's excellent Tedx talk explaining how Mark2Cure works, here's a quick summary and brief explanation why we NEED YOU to join us. It takes about thirty minutes to read one of many articles that get published every...
Spotlight on LINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE)
This week, we profile theLINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE) "a novel knowledge-based, extensible information system of interconnected components that leverages semantic-web technologies and domain level ontologies" by a team at the Center for Computational Science at...
How the rare disease community can help Mark2Cure help rare disease research
“Internet’s most important contribution to health is not access to info, but access to each other.” https://t.co/YFg6UU5vWT #raredisease — SavingCase (@savingcase) January 26, 2015 I used SavingCase’s tweet because it highlights how important the internet has become for connecting people … Continue reading →