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Contest for NoB uses cases ($500 prize!)
Several people in the Network of BioThings (NoB) community recently attended our first in-person meetup (the meeting summary for those who couldn't attend is forthcoming). And one thing that became particularly clear is the importance of having good "Driving...
Microtask crowdsourcing and biocuration
Thanks to the hard work of my coauthors @x0xMaximus and @andrewsu , I was able to nab the award for the best presentation at The Seventh International Biocuration Conference from the International Society of Biocuration. The slide…
Microtask crowdsourcing and biocuration
Thanks to the hard work of my coauthors @x0xMaximus and @andrewsu , I was able to nab the award for the best presentation at The Seventh International Biocuration Conference from the International Society of Biocuration. The slide…
What’s in a name? PCGF2 #GeneOTW
Gene nomenclature is complicated and sometimes, as you’ll see, hilarious. Take polycomb group RING finger protein 2 (PCGF2), for example. “Polycomb group” (PcG) comes from Drosophila biology. To the fly-ignorant, like myself, the term might sound like part of a...
HFE and Modern-Day Bloodletting #GeneOTW
Editor's note: This post is the first in our "Gene of the Week" series. Learn more about it here. Armed with leeches, scalpels, and scarificators, medical practitioners (and their patients) once trusted bloodletting as a valid, sensible remedy for common ailments. In...
Launching our “Gene of the Week” series
Every day, scientists are using BioGPS to get additional information about the genes they are interested in: expression patterns, biological pathways, and more. We have lots of data on which genes you have been using BioGPS to learn more about, and in the coming...
The Network of BioThings is happening!
Late last year, we proposed here a kitchen-sink approach to generating a Network of BioThings, and I'm very pleased to say that things are moving along very nicely. We started out the discussion in a private Google Group among our own lab's friends and collaborators,...
NIH Grant proposal for sale!
Last November, Andrew and I submitted an R21 proposal for consideration by the NIH. Today, we received the summary statement. Since a lot of work went into writing it, I feel compelled to share it regardless of whether its ever funded (which currently...
Recruiting postdocs in earnest!
There is currently no higher priority for our group right now than recruiting 2-3 new postdoctoral associates to join the lab. We are lucky enough to have very stable funding over the next few years, so these are already-funded positions waiting to be filled ASAP. I...
The Network of BioThings
I offer an idea, and a proposal... What: We want to structure biological knowledge by annotating BioThings (genes, proteins, mutations, diseases, and drugs) in biomedical research articles. We want to comprehensively annotate the mentions of these BioThings in...