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Quick ID mapping using MyGene.info
ID mapping is a very common, and often not fun, task for every bioinformatician. Suppose you have a list of gene symbols or reporter ids from an upstream analysis, and then your next analysis requires the use of gene IDs (e.g. Entrez gene IDs or Ensembl gene IDs)....
Aim 4: Patient-aligned crowdsourcing
This is the fifth and final blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Crowdsourcing is all about motivating large groups of individuals to collaboratively achieve some shared vision. For example, the Wikipedia crowd primarily uses...
Non-scientists researching diseases
Since I prematurely reentered grant writing hell, there's been a bit of delay with the last segment of my blog series on our Gene Wiki renewal proposal. editing and proofreading services But in the mean time, I did want to share one interesting vignette that is highly...
Aim 3: Centralized Model Organism Database
This is the fourth blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Our plans to build a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) is the one that we discussed most openly as we were drafting our proposal. So you should feel free to read our...
Aim 2: Outreach
This is the third blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. review of essay writing services As a crowdsourcing initiative, the Gene Wiki project is entirely based on community contributions and participation. One key early decision we made...
Aim 1: Diseases and drugs
This is the second blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. The first funding period focused on crowdsourcing knowledge on human genes in Wikipedia. And that effort has largely been successful. The ~10,000 gene articles are collectively...
Gene Wiki progress report
This is the first blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. First, let's recap a bit of history on our Gene Wiki project. We originally proposed the Gene Wiki as one aim of our NIH grant to develop BioGPS, an crowdsourced online portal for...
The future of the Gene Wiki
My group recently submitted a grant proposal to the NIH (a "competing renewal") to continue our work developing the Gene Wiki. In case you haven't been following, the goal of the Gene Wiki is to create a collaboratively-written, community-reviewed, and...
MyGene.info v2 API goes live!
We are happy to announce that the MyGene.info Version 2 Application Programming Interface (API) is now live. In the v2 API, we have rebuilt the core framework, which increases both data capacity and query performance significantly. For those who are...
BioGPS: Unified query interface and user-customized species preferences
We are happy to release a new version of BioGPS with some exciting new features: 1. Unified query interface BioGPS previously had two search query interfaces. The "simple" query interface (the default shown on the home page) handled the vast majority of user searches...