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Twenty questions for genes — try it out
Part 1: Introduction to the concept Part 2: The prototype game (this post) Part 3: Evaluation framework We recently posted on this blog the idea of creating a computer engine to play the game 20 questions. But instead of asking users to thing of common objects in the...
Soliciting abstracts for SLAS 2012
Even though the official deadline has passed, the informatics track at SLAS 2012 is still open to receiving additional submissions for potential podium and/or poster presentations. If you're interested in coming to San Diego in February 2012 for this fantastic...
Postdocs wanted
It's been about two months since we hit the ground here at Scripps. Overall, things have been great. Our new lab (office) space is newly renovated, our servers are up and running, and we're back to doing science. It's time to expand the team. We are actively...
GenomeWeb article on wiki mining mashup
I guess we had a reporter in the audience at our talks at ISMB. Its always fun to get noticed though its a little scary to see something written about your work without ever having spoken with the author. In this case they got almost everyt…
BioInform profile of the Gene Wiki
Genomeweb's BioInform newsletter just published a profile of our Gene Wiki effort (free registration required). The article was prompted by my keynote presentation and Ben Good's paper in the Bio-ontologies SIG at ISMB. Inspired to get more involved in the Gene Wiki...
Gene Wiki Pulse tweets again!
After a month long summer vacation, the Gene Wiki Pulse Twitter feed is once again alive and tweeting. While I suppose this little guy probably isn’t going to get anyone tenure, its one of my favorite pet projects here at Gene Wiki Central and I’…
Twenty questions for genes
Part 1: Introduction to the concept (this post) Part 2: The prototype game Part 3: Evaluation framework If I asked you to think of your favorite gene, do you think I could guess the identity of that gene by first asking you twenty yes / no questions? I personally...
Gene Wiki presentation at ISMB
I had the privilege of giving a keynote presentation at the ISMB Bio-ontologies SIG in Vienna earlier this month. This audience was perfect for us as we try to move the (mostly) unstructured Gene Wiki toward structured gene annotations. I particularly enjoyed the...
Gene Wiki Rainbow
Last summer I posted an image of the Gene Wiki hyperlink network, aptly titled “the gene wiki hairball”. The image was picked up by noted artist/scientist Martin Krzywinski and used as an example of why hairballs are a terrible visualization. Perhaps out of guilt for making an example out of us and/or perhaps out of interest he has helped us improve our thinking about how to visualize networks substantially. Here is a Circos view of the top 100 genes in the gene wiki, the editors that created the articles, and the diseases and compounds that the genes are linked to. It will be presented as a guerilla poster[1] at ISMB this year so please stop by and have a closer look!
[1] guer·ril·la post·er /gəˈrilə/ /ˈpōstər/
Migration update — Done! BioGPS.org is live now.
Our migration is done! Our new site BioGPS.org is now live. Please bookmark this new address. All traffic to biogps.gnf.org (our old site) will redirect you to BioGPS.org so that your existing bookmarks will continue to work. User accounts that have not been migrated...