Taking ownership of your plugin

by | Jun 9, 2010 | BioGPS, plugin

Early on in BioGPS’s development, we were heavily focused on getting as many plugins registered in as short a time period as possible. And because our plugin interface is so trivially simple, we were able to add plugins for a whole lot of popular sites (e.g.,...

Spotlight: GoPubMed

by | May 28, 2010 | BioGPS, plugin, spotlight

This week, our featured plugin in the Spotlight series is for GoPubMed. Check out their new BioGPS plugin, and read all about this new resource below:In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.GoPubMed is a web service for summarization and...

Volunteers, please

by | May 25, 2010 | BioGPS

Like any web development team, we here at BioGPS look at web analytics a lot. We look at trends in BioGPS usage statistics in the context of page views, users, geographic locations, etc., and we learn useful insights for our development effort.But to be sure BioGPS is...

Spotlight: CGD Tissue Survey

by | May 21, 2010 | BioGPS, plugin, spotlight

This week in our Spotlight series of blog posts, we’re pleased to highlight the CGD Tissue Survey. Check out their plugin in the plugin library, and read all about this new resource below:In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.The...

BioGPS powered by CouchDB now, time to relax.

by | May 20, 2010 | BioGPS, tech

As we hinted in our earlier post, we have now officially moved our gene query engine from Oracle to CouchDB. We quietly completed the migration last Friday, and so far, everything has run pretty smoothly. There were no significant visual changes in the user interface,...