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The Gene Wiki gets NIH support
Even though this blog was initially created to cover our BioGPS gene portal application, one of the broader themes of our group’s research is harnessing community intelligence in biology. And aside from BioGPS, our other main project in this space is the Gene Wiki...
Improved search result page
In an earlier post, we described how our migration to CouchDB resulted in substantial improvements to performance of BioGPS. In this post, we follow that up by outlining new functionality that was enabled by that change to CouchDB. Specifically, we have added several...
We love model organisms too
Given our group's interests in mammalian biology, we initially focused on gene annotation data from just three species -- human, mouse and rat. However, the plugin concept that BioGPS uses is easily extensible to other organisms as well. Therefore, we recently added...
Taking ownership of your plugin
Early on in BioGPS's development, we were heavily focused on getting as many plugins registered in as short a time period as possible. And because our plugin interface is so trivially simple, we were able to add plugins for a whole lot of popular sites (e.g., Entrez...
Spotlight: International Knockout Mouse Consortium
This week, we profile the International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) in our latest Spotlight post.In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.The IKMC web portal is the official web site for the International Knockout Mouse Consortium...
Spotlight: GoPubMed
This week, our featured plugin in the Spotlight series is for GoPubMed. Check out their new BioGPS plugin, and read all about this new resource below:In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.GoPubMed is a web service for summarization and...
Volunteers, please
Like any web development team, we here at BioGPS look at web analytics a lot. We look at trends in BioGPS usage statistics in the context of page views, users, geographic locations, etc., and we learn useful insights for our development effort.But to be sure BioGPS is...
Sausage making at Wikipedia
Recently, Rod Page proposed to add NCBI Taxonomy IDs to Wikipedia pages. Rod outlines the scientific rationale which I won't repeat here, but I think it's safe to say that from the scientific perspective, the benefits seem to far outweigh the downsides.This seemingly...
Spotlight: CGD Tissue Survey
This week in our Spotlight series of blog posts, we're pleased to highlight the CGD Tissue Survey. Check out their plugin in the plugin library, and read all about this new resource below:In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.The CGD...
BioGPS powered by CouchDB now, time to relax.
As we hinted in our earlier post, we have now officially moved our gene query engine from Oracle to CouchDB. We quietly completed the migration last Friday, and so far, everything has run pretty smoothly. There were no significant visual changes in the user interface,...