BioGPS supports OpenID now

Don’t want to remember another username/password combo for BioGPS? Now you can sign-in to BioGPS using your Google or Yahoo account (or one of several other supported accounts you may use everyday). This feature is brought to you by OpenID, a free online...

BioGPS's next organism

BioGPS currently only supports three organisms: human, mouse, and rat. This obviously reflects the mammalian bias in our internal research programs.However, after a recent presentation at the SDCSB symposium, we got a lot of feedback from people who use other model...

Unexpected downtime

We’re aware that BioGPS has been a bit flaky in the last couple of days. At various times, the server has not been responding, or searches have not been successfully executing. We have developers and system administrators looking into the problem now, and we...

The who's who of BioGPS users

To follow up on the previously-posted usage metrics, I did a quick analysis of our registered BioGPS users, and here’s the top 10 institutions represented (outside of GNF, of course):Harvard UniversityScripps Research InstituteUniversity of North...

Welcome SymAtlas users

As of today, users who visit http://symatlas.gnf.org will be redirected to BioGPS. Many of you are probably reading this blog for the first time because of this new feature, and believe me, it’s not a change we take lightly. SymAtlas has a very loyal user base,...