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Ringing In The New Year With Dysferlin — #GeneOTW
Sometimes, the entire month of December feels like an endless stream of holiday parties, non-stop feasting, and way too many cookies. Since my holiday vices tend toward roast duck and copious amounts of sticky rice, I’m definitely looking forward to a more...
Mark2Cure limited testing still ongoing
If you are participating in our limited test (and have had a chance to really try out Mark2Cure), please let us know what you think. Send an email to contact at mark2cure dot org. If you agreed to participate in … Continue reading →
BioGPS Featured Article – Microarray characterization of gene expression changes in blood during acute ethanol exposure
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...
I need some AIRE — #GeneOTW
If you've been reading my Gene-of-the-Week posts for a while, you may recall that, although I know admittedly little about the immune system, I have a particular, personal interest in autoimmune diseases. Recently, my immune system has been aberrantly attacking my...
BioGPS Featured Article – siRNA screen for genes that affect Junin virus entry uncovers voltage-gated calcium channels as a therapeutic target
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...
A Fifty Billion Dollar Problem — #GeneOTW with ACE
With 11.4 million prescriptions filled each month, it’s no wonder that the hypertension drug Diovan is one of the most prescribed medications in America. After all, the CDC reports that 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure. ((“High Blood Pressure Facts.” CDC....
If you can READ, you CAN HELP
As mentioned in Andrew’s Tedx Talk in this post, one of the grand challenges in scientific research is creating a system where all scientists can can access the knowledge embedded within the entirety of research literature. With such a system, … Continue reading →
BioGPS Featured Article – The kSORT Assay to Detect Renal Transplant Patients at High Risk for Acute Rejection: Results of the Multicenter AART Study
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...
MyGene.info added mm9 support for mouse genes
The default genomic locations of mouse genes from MyGene.info are always based on the current genome assembly of GRCm38 (or mm10). Although mm10 has been released in early 2012, there are still needs today to query gene annotations based on GRCm37 (or mm9), the previous mouse genome assembly, in order to handle some legacy data.
Just like what we did for human genes a while ago, supporting hg19 while upgrading to hg38, we now announce that mm9 is supported by MyGene.info for mouse genes, in addition to default mm10 we already support. Similar to our hg19 support, you can now get genomic locations and exon coordinations based on mm9 for mouse genes. And you can also query genes using mm9-based genomic intervals.
PGM1 Deficiency: Best New Disease of 2014?— #GeneOTW
2014 is almost over, my friends. The year is coming to a close, and like every year—but probably plenty more this year, thanks to Buzzfeed—a barrage of “Best of” lists will soon besiege us. Already, we have had the best subreddits, the best movie posters, and the best...