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Semantic Wiki Links article published
A while back, I posted an entry here called “Stepping towards a Semantic Wikipedia” that quickly became the most-visited post on this blog. Today, after several months of waiting, I discovered by accident that the official peer-reviewed article o…
Google Summer of Code 2012!
On Friday, we were thrilled to learn that we were accepted to the Google Summer of Code program for 2012! Now in its eighth year, this program pairs students with open source projects for summer internships. Google pays the student a stipend, we get smart...
Dizeez @ Future of Genetic Medicine V
Recently, we have added several new features to the Dizeez game (previously described here). In particular, the game now allows players to select a specific area of biology (for example, by disease or protein family) that best matches their expertise. Also, a "recap"...
Engines of Gamification
After years of talking about games for science, I’m finally going to jump in and make one. I’ve got an idea (which I will elaborate on soon) and now I’m trying to figure out how to go about implementing it. The challenge right now is to dec…
Interview with Results for Development Institute
A few days ago, Hassan Masum of the Results for Development Institute, asked me some questions about the Gene Wiki as a platform for collaboration and discovery in the health sciences. The results of the interview were posted today on their blog …
Cloud presentation on BioGPS and mygene.info
Last week, I gave a talk at the Cloud Computing Symposium of the Molecular Med Tri-Con conference. It was an interesting line up of speakers on all aspects of cloud computing, and got a chance to catch up with several familiar faces. Slides are now posted at...
Publication review 2011
As the end of 2011 was a busy time grant-writing, I didn't get an opportunity to highlight several recent publications that came out from our lab. Better late than never: Hu Y, Galkin AV, Wu C, Reddy V, Su AI (2011) CAFET Algorithm Reveals Wnt/PCP Signature in Lung...
BioGPS iPhone app update
Back in November 2011, we announced that we were starting a long-overdue update of the BioGPS iPhone app. We'd intended to post periodic updates of that process here on the blog, but the holidays and grant deadlines conspired to make that impossible. Nevertheless, the...
Community Intelligence session at ISMB 2012
Looking for something to do in Long Beach, California on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 17, 2012 ? Stop by the special session on Community Intelligence in Bioinformatics at this year’s conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB…
Scientific Games in Genome Biology
Happy New year everyone! In case you are looking for some inspirational reading to start off 2012, Andrew and I wrote a Research Highlight for Genome Biology on Games With a Scientific Purpose. Kudos to Andrew for convincing them to make it open…