CouchDB talk at X-Gen Congress & Expo

We have another upcoming BioGPS talk in store! I will be presenting at the X-Gen Congress & Expo (March 14-18, San Diego) on the technical side of our previous migration from a relational database to the document-oriented CouchDB. The talk will be on March 15...

A CouchOne Case Study on BioGPS

In May of 2010, we migrated our gene annotation database from Oracle to CouchDB, a document-oriented database. Our CouchDB instance is hosted at Amazon Web Services, storing the annotation data of ~400k genes across eight species. Even though we are currently running...

BioGPS at Bio-IT world — discount code!

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting on BioGPS at the 10th Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2011 taking place April 12-14, 2011 in Boston, MA. I will be speaking in Track 3 on Cloud Computing, and the title of my talk will be...

Last chance to chime in!

As we mentioned earlier this week, we are in the process of choosing a new logo for BioGPS. If you’d like to chime in and rate your favorites, please help us out!We’ve cleared the votes from earlier in the week so that the newer designs get rated on a...

Help choose our new logo!

BioGPS is growing in usage (over 150,000 page views in the last month!) and that popularity justifies a little professional makeover. Later this year we’ll be releasing a drastically improved user interface that will be both easier on the eyes and easier to use....