Correlation search

Many of you know that the precursor to BioGPS was another web tool called SymAtlas. While SymAtlas was great, BioGPS was meant to expand on that design by focusing on community extensibility and user customizability. We are very proud that BioGPS handled all of the...

BioGPS manuscript published in Genome Biology

The manuscript describing BioGPS has just been published online in Genome Biology! Currently it’s only available as a provisional PDF, but the final typeset version should be available in the next couple weeks. [Edit: the final version of the manuscript is now...

BioGPS now supports Drosophila genes

Although the data and functionality have been in place for a while, this post is the official announcement that BioGPS now supports Drosophila genes and data. What does this mean? Three things:View Drosophila data. As shown in the figure at right, you now can view...

Usage update: November 2009

It’s been several months since the last usage update in June so I thought I’d post some updated numbers. In addition to the standard metrics below, I plotted our growth in page views and website visits over time starting at the beginning of 2009:Between...

Spotlight: GeneCards

This week, we’re pleased to profile the popular GeneCards database in our weekly Spotlight series. Most people will need no introduction to GeneCards, but nevertheless we thought it would be nice to get a chance to highlight their recent work and to note their...

Spotlight: Ingenuity and GeneGO

This week, we’re featuring a head-to-head spotlight series between two of the most popular pathway analysis tools, GeneGO and Ingenuity. Both are available as BioGPS plugins (Ingenuity and GeneGO).By the flip of a coin, GeneGO goes first…In one tweet (140...