by Kerin Higa | Sep 29, 2014 | BioGPS, cancer, GeneOfTheWeek
1989 was an important year. In May of 1989, Yonehara et al. published a report that treatment with an anti-FAS antibody leads to the death of cells expressing our ominously-named gene-of-the-week, “Fas cell surface death receptor” (FAS).1 In July of 1989, Bernhard...
by ginger | Sep 24, 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 | Sep 22, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
In Tanzania, 1 in 1,400 people are targeted for death. That’s the country’s estimated prevalence of albinism,1 a disorder that elsewhere, is far less common and far less dangerous. Since 2006, seventy-one people with albinism have been killed—and that’s just the...
by ginger | Sep 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 ginger | Sep 16, 2014 | BioGPS, mygene.info, myvariant.info
An oral presentation for MyVariant.info? As you might guess, that is a new project to tackle the variant annotations using MyGene.info’s proved strategy and architecture. It’s an exciting project coming out of 1st Network of BioThings Hackathon in just a...
by Kerin Higa | Sep 15, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Happy Monday, friends! Once a week since April, Melissa and I have blogged about popular genes that users have searched for using BioGPS. Based on user data, we have been led to explore a wide variety of genes in our Gene-of-the-Week series. This has...
