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Saving gene lists
It's been a quiet summer on the blog, but we've been hard at work improving BioGPS behind the scenes. Much of our recent activity has been on small-scale bug fixes and improvements, but we have a few major items slated for release soon.We've just added the first of...
An experiment in outsourcing science
The Gene Wiki effort leverages the idea of "community intelligence" (like other similar projects such as WikiPathways, WikiProteins, and WikiGenes). It creates a two-way flow of gene annotation information in which the community of users is also the community of...
Updated BioGPS usage metrics
It's been a couple of months since the last usage update so I thought I'd post some updated numbers. In May 2009, we had 16272 visits from 8301 unique visitors, resulting in 122,250 pageviews.And although we provide the options for users to http://symatlas.gnf.org to...
BioGPS supports OpenID now
Don't want to remember another username/password combo for BioGPS? Now you can sign-in to BioGPS using your Google or Yahoo account (or one of several other supported accounts you may use everyday). This feature is brought to you by OpenID, a free online identity...
A Gene Wiki usage update
It's been over a year since we created the Gene Wiki, and nine months since the effort was published. We previously blogged about the vision as it relates to the Long Tail, and many others have written about the effort too.So one year later, how does one...
BioGPS's next organism
BioGPS currently only supports three organisms: human, mouse, and rat. This obviously reflects the mammalian bias in our internal research programs.However, after a recent presentation at the SDCSB symposium, we got a lot of feedback from people who use other model...
Unexpected downtime
We're aware that BioGPS has been a bit flaky in the last couple of days. At various times, the server has not been responding, or searches have not been successfully executing. We have developers and system administrators looking into the problem now, and we hope to...
The who's who of BioGPS users
To follow up on the previously-posted usage metrics, I did a quick analysis of our registered BioGPS users, and here's the top 10 institutions represented (outside of GNF, of course):Harvard UniversityScripps Research InstituteUniversity of North CarolinaImperial...
BioGPS usage metrics
It's been one week since we started redirecting SymAtlas users to BioGPS, and we've been thrilled with the response so far. Comparing the seven days after the change with the seven days before, we see a 55% increase in BioGPS page views (25,871 vs 16,726) and a...
Welcome SymAtlas users
As of today, users who visit http://symatlas.gnf.org will be redirected to BioGPS. Many of you are probably reading this blog for the first time because of this new feature, and believe me, it's not a change we take lightly. SymAtlas has a very loyal user base, and...