by Melissa Lau | Apr 2, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Editor’s note: This post is the first in our “Gene of the Week” series. Learn more about it here. Armed with leeches, scalpels, and scarificators, medical practitioners (and their patients) once trusted bloodletting as a valid, sensible remedy for...
by Justin Kiggins | Apr 2, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Every day, scientists are using BioGPS to get additional information about the genes they are interested in: expression patterns, biological pathways, and more. We have lots of data on which genes you have been using BioGPS to learn more about, and in the coming...
by Andrew Su | Feb 3, 2014 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, crowdsourcing, jobs, recruiting
There is currently no higher priority for our group right now than recruiting 2-3 new postdoctoral associates to join the lab. We are lucky enough to have very stable funding over the next few years, so these are already-funded positions waiting to be filled ASAP. I...
by Chunlei Wu | Oct 1, 2013 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, mygene.info, web services
ID mapping is a very common, and often not fun, task for every bioinformatician. Suppose you have a list of gene symbols or reporter ids from an upstream analysis, and then your next analysis requires the use of gene IDs (e.g. Entrez gene IDs or Ensembl gene IDs)....
by Andrew Su | Jul 30, 2013 | BioGPS, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH, usage stats
This is the first blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. First, let’s recap a bit of history on our Gene Wiki project. We originally proposed the Gene Wiki as one aim of our NIH grant to develop BioGPS, an crowdsourced online portal...
by Chunlei Wu | Jul 15, 2013 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, mygene.info, web services
We are happy to announce that the MyGene.info Version 2 Application Programming Interface (API) is now live. In the v2 API, we have rebuilt the core framework, which increases both data capacity and query performance significantly. For those who are...
