by Chunlei Wu | Mar 9, 2011 | BioGPS, conference
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...
by Chunlei Wu | Mar 8, 2011 | 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...
by Andrew Su | Feb 15, 2011 | BioGPS, conference
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...
by Andrew Su | Feb 11, 2011 | BioGPS
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...
by Andrew Su | Feb 8, 2011 | BioGPS
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....
by Chunlei Wu | Jan 27, 2011 | BioGPS, feature, NewYear
Welcome back to our New Year, New Features Series, where we’re kicking off 2011 with a bounty of new goodies for all BioGPS users. This week we’re introducing a small but very handy feature …Exporting Gene ListsHave you got a few gene lists saved in...