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Firefox Lag – Now you see it, now you don't
Here at the Official BioGPS Development Labs, we use Mozilla Firefox for a large chunk of our day-to-day work. Combined with extensions like Firebug, it's a critical part of our toolkit. We're pretty heavy users of it daily, even with other browsers tempting us with...
Spotlight: Reactome
This week, we're pleased to profile the Reactome database in our weekly Spotlight series. Thanks to Robin Haw and Peter D’Eustachio from Reactome for taking the time to talk with us, and for registering the Reactome BioGPS plugin.In one tweet or less, introduce us to...
Spotlight: NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database
This week, we're pleased to profile the NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database (PID) in our weekly Spotlight series. Thanks to Kira Anthony from the PID for taking the time to talk with us, and for registering the PID BioGPS plugin.In one tweet or less, introduce us...
Quick-adding plugins
In what I think is one of the best features we've rolled out recently, we're happy to announce the new "Quick-add" feature for customizing gene report layouts.Previously, in order to add a new plugin to a layout, users had to click over to the Plugin library, a...
Gene Wiki update paper
Our second paper on the Gene Wiki ijkey=70heWcVDzEvSzl5&keytype;=ref ">was published online today in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. It will also be included in the 2010 Database issue in January. From the concluding paragraph of the introduction:Here, we present...
Spotlight: aGEM
This week, we're pleased to profile aGEM in our weekly Spotlight series. The folks at aGEM were early adopters, having registered their BioGPS plugin back in May 2009. Read on to learn about their fascinating gene expression database.1. In one tweet or less, introduce...
Gene Wiki Google update
Inspired by a neat analysis of online fungi resources by Rod Page, I decided to do a similar comparison of Gene Wiki pages. Here's the take home message: in terms of online gene annotation resources, Gene Cards is the most common top-ranked resource, followed closely...
Spotlight: WikiPathways
This week, we're pleased to profile WikiPathways in our weekly Spotlight series. WikiPathways is our eight-most popular plugin in BioGPS, and of course we love the community intelligence model that also underlies the Gene Wiki. Check out the profile below...1. In one...
Spotlight: Signaling Gateway and Molecule Pages
We're pleased to introduce the first in a series of blog posts highlighting specific BioGPS plugins. If you have suggestions on who we should profile in the future and what we should ask, let us know. Without further ado, this week's subject is the UCSD/Nature...
Plugin window makeover
BioGPS plugins have a new look! While we've always had plugin windows that have been functionally adequate, they haven't always been easy to use (or easy on the eyes). Therefore, we're very pleased to announce that the plugin windows have undergone a makeover.There...