by Andrew Su | Apr 30, 2012 | BioGPS, games, Gene Wiki, GSoC
We’re proud to introduce Crowdsourcing Biology’s first class of GSoC Scholars! In no particular order: Max Ludvigsson: I am a undergraduate student from Sweden. I am currently studying engineering physics and as I am interested in both biology and...
by Andrew Su | Mar 29, 2012 | BioGPS, outsourcing
We are very proud to announce the arrival of the brand new iPhone app for BioGPS! As humbly as we can possibly say it, this app is awesome. If you like BioGPS through your web browser, then you’ll love the app. As one colleague says, “I use it to dream up...
by Andrew Su | Mar 16, 2012 | BioGPS, games, Gene Wiki, GSoC
On Friday, we were thrilled to learn that we were accepted to the Google Summer of Code program for 2012! Now in its eighth year, this program pairs students with open source projects for summer internships. Google pays the student a stipend, we get smart...
by Andrew Su | Feb 28, 2012 | BioGPS, conference
Last week, I gave a talk at the Cloud Computing Symposium of the Molecular Med Tri-Con conference. It was an interesting line up of speakers on all aspects of cloud computing, and got a chance to catch up with several familiar faces. Slides are now posted at...
by Andrew Su | Feb 2, 2012 | BioGPS, outsourcing
Back in November 2011, we announced that we were starting a long-overdue update of the BioGPS iPhone app. We’d intended to post periodic updates of that process here on the blog, but the holidays and grant deadlines conspired to make that impossible....
by Andrew Su | Nov 9, 2011 | BioGPS, outsourcing
We’re starting a new experiment with the BioGPS iPhone app. As you may know the iPhone app does exist, and it’s got a more-than-respectable four-star rating. Yet, it’s not an avenue that we’ve been pushing very hard on since we first released...
