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BioGPS funding – we need your help!
So the last two posts in this series have recapped four years of progress and outlined our path forward for BioGPS. Now, we are asking for your help. Having reviewed tool development proposals for NIH study sections before, I know that evaluating proposals for...
Mapping the future of BioGPS
After four productive years of funding from NIGMS, we have a bit over a year left on our current grant for BioGPS. In addition to releasing some new features for data set visualization and management (our current Specific Aim #1), we are planning to spend significant...
BioGPS retrospective – the four year anniversary
Through the generous support from NIGMS, we have enjoyed stable funding for BioGPS development since 2008. During that time, we think we've made great progress building our community-extensible and user-customizable gene portal. It's worth recapping how the last...
Recapping gene-disease mining (via Twitter)
[View the story "Gene Wiki Plus extensions" on Storify]Gene Wiki Plus extensionsStorified by Andrew Su · Mon, May 07 2012 14:03:56The uber-hacker Pierre posted a great blog post about using getting gene-disease mappings from the the Human Disease Ontology...
Integrating Knowledge Presentation at SMWCon
Our presentation at the Semantic MediaWiki Conference was a smashing hit! I discussed the software we developed to create GeneWiki+, which we've christened mwsync. Mwsync is a cool little Java framework that makes it easy to maintain a live mirror of any MediaWiki...
Meet our GSoC scholars!
We're proud to introduce Crowdsourcing Biology's first class of GSoC Scholars! In no particular order: Max Ludvigsson: I am a undergraduate student from Sweden. I am currently studying engineering physics and as I am interested in both biology and programming as...
Local talks on games and Gene Wiki
Last Friday I had the honor of speaking at the Salk Institute ‘Systems to Synthesis’ Symposium. I introduced the idea of games with a biological purpose, showed off our early results with Dizeez and plugged some of the prototypes appearing at gen…
Gene Wiki SPARQL endpoint
Thanks to Leyla and Alex Garcia-Castro from UniProt and Florida State University respectively, we now have access to a SPARQL endpoint for the data in the Gene Wiki. Access it live here:http://virtuoso.idiginfo.org/sparql(update on 4-28-12 , that…
Human Guided Forests – HGF
Yesterday I posted some slides about an idea I had recently which I call Human Guided Forests or HGF for short. This an attempt to marry crowdsourcing with machine learning to produce better class predictors for datasets with very large features …
BioGPS iPhone app Version 2.0
We are very proud to announce the arrival of the brand new iPhone app for BioGPS! As humbly as we can possibly say it, this app is awesome. If you like BioGPS through your web browser, then you'll love the app. As one colleague says, "I use it to dream up questions...