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The Gene Wiki project: Looking to the future v.2017
The Gene Wiki project has been generously funded by the National Institutes for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since 2009. As the second funding period is wrapping up early next year, it was time to once again look forward and think about our vision for the next 4-5...
New Data Release for MyVariant.info 201706
Another fresh data release for MyVariant.info is out! In this data release, we have updated the data from ClinVar to their latest versions, and also added two new fields under ClinVar and ExAC to handle specific cases, including genotype set and multi-allelic variants. Here are more details.
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Happy Fathers Day!
A HUGE thanks to all the dads (and EVERYONE) who has been contributing to make a difference for the NGLY1 families.
Shipping delays
Apologies to international prize and drawing winners who were waiting for their prizes. Most of the international packages that we shipped out in May/June have been
Science Game Lab: tool for the unification of biomedical games with a purpose
Abstract
Games with a purpose and other kinds of citizen science initiatives demonstrate great potential for advancing biomedical science and improving STEM education. Articles documenting the success of projects such as Fold.it and Eyewire in high impact journals have raised wide interest in new applications of the distributed human intelligence that these systems have tapped into.
Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata
As the Wikimedia Movement works to define its strategy for the next fifteen years, it is worthwhile to consider how its recent product Wikidata may fit into that strategy. As its homepage states, “Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines.” Wikidata is a particular kind of database designed to capture statements about items in the world with references that support those statements. Because Wikidata is a database, its contents are meant to be viewed in the context of software that retrieve the data through queries and then renders the data to meet the needs of a user in a certain context.
Happy Memorial Day weekend!
Mark2Cure was at the Citizen Science Association 2017 conference, and a lot of people were excited about the use of citizen science for biomedical research!
MedLit Blitz, Mark2Curathon Results and More
Mark2Curathon Results
Sorry for the delay, the Mark2Curathon results are finally in! During the Mark2Cure portion of MedLit Blitz, we had 34 participants contribute over 16,000 annotations. Because both the entity recognition and the relationship extraction tasks are very different from Cochrane’s screening task, we had to take some
What can you build with MyGene/MyVariant annotation services?
We built MyGene.info and MyVariant.info services to be fast so you can integrate them into your own pipelines, apps, and tools. View this jbrowse example.
The Mark2Curathon starts now!
Both Mark2Cure and Cochrane crowd rely on citizen scientists to help with health evidence and biomedical discovery. Join our anniversary celebration event!
List of all HGVS IDs in MyVariant.info
As requested, we now enable our users to obtain a list of HGVS IDs for all 425M gene variant annotations available in MyVariant.info. See how here.