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Migration update — migration downtime on June 23rd
As we approach the finish of the migration process, it's finally time to physically move BioGPS to its new home at biogps.org. To complete this final step, BioGPS will be unavailable on June 23rd from approximately 10 AM to 12 PM (PDT). When the migration is complete,...
Migration update — new TOS and new blog address
As we mentioned previously, BioGPS is migrating to a new institution and new servers. That migration has officially begun, starting with two items to announce here. First, we've completed the first phase of migrating our user accounts. Existing BioGPS users previously...
BioGPS is moving
There are exciting changes brewing here with the BioGPS team, and it’s time we shared them with you.I (Andrew Su, the PI behind the BioGPS and Gene Wiki projects) have decided to move back to academia. Beginning July 1, I will be joining the Scripps Research Institute...
Introducing BioGPS 2.0
The BioGPS team is very excited to announce the public release of BioGPS version 2.0! There are a bunch of changes included in this update:1. New logoAs mentioned in a previous blog post the BioGPS team decided that it was time for a new logo. After considering the...
Scheduled Down Time for BioGPS on March 26th
Due to system maintenance, we will have to bring down BioGPS on Saturday, March 26th, between 8:00AM - 2:00PM (PDT). We apologize for the inconvenience.
Gene Wiki Links
As a brief first post on the Gene Wiki blog, I just want to lay down some links to resources that describe what the Gene Wiki is all about. Announcements of future Gene Wiki work will show up here.The Gene Wiki portal on WikipediaThe Gene Wiki twitter feedGene...
CouchDB talk at X-Gen Congress & Expo
We have another upcoming BioGPS talk in store! I will be presenting at the X-Gen Congress & Expo (March 14-18, San Diego) on the technical side of our previous migration from a relational database to the document-oriented CouchDB. The talk will be on March 15 under...
A CouchOne Case Study on BioGPS
In May of 2010, we migrated our gene annotation database from Oracle to CouchDB, a document-oriented database. Our CouchDB instance is hosted at Amazon Web Services, storing the annotation data of ~400k genes across eight species. Even though we are currently running...
Gene Wiki on Twitter
For the Gene Wiki aficionado and Twitter users among us, we're happy to announce the Gene Wiki Pulse! Why follow this new service?Know who is editing the Gene Wiki, live and in real-timeBrowse serendipitously through a dynamic #network of #people, #genes, and...
Upcoming Gene Wiki presentations — SBS and Bio-Ontologies
Following on the last post about our upcoming presentation at Bio-IT World, I realized that I should also highlight two other upcoming presentations. These two presentations will be on the Gene Wiki, and specifically on our efforts to mine novel gene annotations out...