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How Would Mark2Cure Expedite Scientific Discovery?
How would thorough annotations improve information extraction from biomedical research literature? To illustrate one of the issues Mark2Cure aims to address, we’ll start with an example drawn from history–the undiscovered public knowledge that an information scientist named Don Swanson successfully … Continue reading →
MyGene.info moved to GRCh38/hg38 for human genes with hg19 still supported
GRCh38 (or hg38) is the latest human genome assembly, which was released almost a year ago. MyGene.info is now moved to support GRCh38 by default for human genes, but the data (including queries) based on previous assembly version (GRCh37/hg19) are still supported. Here are some details about this change:
Spotlight: GeneMania
This week, we profile GeneMANIA a web tool developed by a team of researchers in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto. Dr. Gary Bader, one of the PI's involved in the development of GeneMania, kindly answered our...
Some Like It Hot — #GeneOTW with TRPV1
The transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1, or TRPV1, is most commonly known as the capsaicin receptor. ((Caterina, M.J., Schumacher, M.A., Tominaga, M., Rosen, T.A., Levine, J.D., and Julius, D. (1997). The capsaicin receptor: a...
Mark2Cure to Start Beta Testing soon
Mark2Cure is a citizen science platform that enables users to make biomedical research literature more useful for scientists by annotating research abstracts. Be one of the first citizen scientists to test out our web app and provide voice your opinion … Continue reading →
BioGPS Featured Article – Correcting for Differential Transcript Coverage Reveals a Strong Relationship between Alternative Splicing and Organism Complexity
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...
How To Be A Superhero — #GeneOTW with Myostatin
The Hulk had gamma radiation, Peter Parker had a radioactive spider, and the Spartans had the official 300 Workout (and CGI). What “double-muscled” mice have is a mutation in myostatin… Expressed primarily in skeletal muscle, myostatin is a secreted protein that...
NoB Hackathon
The Network of Biothings is aiming to alleviate the problem of too much information using a number of different approaches such as: Crowdsourcing Natural Language Processing Citizen science Microtask markets Professional biocuration Scientific publishing Open Innovation Challenges With resources already … Continue reading →
Introducing mygene R package
As we mentioned in previous post, Bioconductor has accepted mygene, the official MyGene.info R client, and included it in the biannual release on October 14, 2014. MyGene.info provides simple-to-use REST web services to query/retrieve gene annotation data. mygene is a wrapper for accessing MyGene.info services in R.
BioGPS Featured Article – Maternal Obesity Affects Fetal Neurodevelopmental and Metabolic Gene Expression: A Pilot 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...