by Andrew Su | May 17, 2010 | BioGPS, layouts, plugin, usage stats
Granted, BioGPS is a software application, and Moore’s Law is derived from improvements in computer hardware. But inasmuch as Moore’s Law is generally equated with “rapid growth”, we’re happy that BioGPS meets or exceeds it on all the...
by Andrew Su | May 14, 2010 | BioGPS, plugin, spotlight
We’re pleased to highlight another great plugin in our Spotlight series of posts. This week, we’ll be profiling STITCH. Without further ado:In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.STITCH is a database of interactions between...
by Chunlei Wu | May 11, 2010 | BioGPS, tech
As a preview of a big upcoming change in BioGPS, we have been working for several months on a migration of our database from Oracle to CouchDB. We are also moving our gene annotation to the cloud by hosting our CouchDB instance at Amazon EC2.We have generally been...
by Andrew Su | May 7, 2010 | BioGPS, plugin, spotlight
After a brief hiatus in our occasional Spotlight series, we’re pleased to resume with an introduction to the Human Protein Atlas. This site has long been a plugin in the BioGPS plugin library. Thanks to Lisa Berglund for guiding us through the highlights of the...
by Andrew Su | May 4, 2010 | BioGPS
Sometimes, gene annotation just can’t wait. For those times when you need gene annotation information now, we’ve just released a new mobile version of the BioGPS website at http://biogps.gnf.org/m/. Similar to the iPhone app we released previously, the...
by Andrew Su | Apr 16, 2010 | BioGPS
Earlier this year, we announced our plans to grow BioGPS as a social application. Previously, your user account was pretty much limited to keeping track of your BioGPS stuff — layouts, plugins, and gene lists. Feast your eyes on BioGPS Profiles.BioGPS now gives...
