by ginger | Dec 17, 2014 | BioGPS, Featured Article Series
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas–all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions...
by Melissa Lau | Dec 15, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
With 11.4 million prescriptions filled each month, it’s no wonder that the hypertension drug Diovan is one of the most prescribed medications in America. After all, the CDC reports that 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure.1 In the U.S alone, 67 million people are...
by ginger | Dec 10, 2014 | BioGPS, Featured Article Series
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas–all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions...
by Chunlei Wu | Dec 9, 2014 | assembly, BioGPS, genome, mouse, mygene.info
The default genomic locations of mouse genes from MyGene.info are always based on the current genome assembly of GRCm38 (or mm10). Although mm10 has been released in early 2012, there are still needs today to query gene annotations based on GRCm37 (or mm9), the...
by Kerin Higa | Dec 8, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
2014 is almost over, my friends. The year is coming to a close, and like every year—but probably plenty more this year, thanks to Buzzfeed—a barrage of “Best of” lists will soon besiege us. Already, we have had the best subreddits, the best movie posters, and the best...
by Chunlei Wu | Dec 3, 2014 | api, BioGPS, mygene.info, species, taxonomy
Last week, we released a new feature to support querying genes beyond the species level, at levels of genus, family,…,phylum. As a companion of this new feature, we have now added a new API for developers to get the species data programatically: GET...