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BioGPS is growing faster than Moore's Law
Granted, BioGPS is a software application, and Moore's Law is derived from improvements in computer hardware. But inasmuch as Moore's Law is generally equated with "rapid growth", we're happy that BioGPS meets or exceeds it on all the usage metrics we've looked at.And...
Spotlight: STITCH
We're pleased to highlight another great plugin in our Spotlight series of posts. This week, we'll be profiling STITCH. Without further ado:In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.STITCH is a database of interactions between proteins and...
Powering BioGPS from the cloud? Experiencing Amazon EC2
As a preview of a big upcoming change in BioGPS, we have been working for several months on a migration of our database from Oracle to CouchDB. We are also moving our gene annotation to the cloud by hosting our CouchDB instance at Amazon EC2.We have generally been...
Spotlight: Human Protein Atlas
After a brief hiatus in our occasional Spotlight series, we're pleased to resume with an introduction to the Human Protein Atlas. This site has long been a plugin in the BioGPS plugin library. Thanks to Lisa Berglund for guiding us through the highlights of the HPA.In...
BioGPS on mobile devices
Sometimes, gene annotation just can't wait. For those times when you need gene annotation information now, we've just released a new mobile version of the BioGPS website at http://biogps.gnf.org/m/. Similar to the iPhone app we released previously, the mobile web...
User profiles and social networks
Earlier this year, we announced our plans to grow BioGPS as a social application. Previously, your user account was pretty much limited to keeping track of your BioGPS stuff -- layouts, plugins, and gene lists. Feast your eyes on BioGPS Profiles.BioGPS now gives you...
Recruiting for a Bioinformatics Programmer opening
Do you like what we're doing here with BioGPS? Are you passionate about building cutting edge software for the life sciences? Are you looking to play a key role in a small and energetic programming team?If the answer to the above questions are yes, then we'd love to...
Gene Wiki stats for January 2010
Whenever I lack for inspiration for a blog post, or whenever we need a pick-me-up in the form of evidence that our work is being used, I fire off an update of our usage metrics. Yesterday, I ran an update of the Gene Wiki stats.For the month of January 2010:The 9860...
BioGPS is going social
The blog is getting a bit of a slow start to 2010 here at Chez BioGPS, but our developers certainly aren't. They've been hard at work on some great new features, and we'll have a couple announcements here on the blog soon.But I thought a great way to kick off the new...
BioGPS is now an iPhone App!
Just in time for the holidays, we've got some exciting news for you. BioGPS is no longer constrained to full-size desktop or laptop computers. Now you can fit the world's most powerful gene annotation portal in your pocket! Introducing the BioGPS App for iPhone® and...