by Andrew Su | Dec 4, 2008 | BioGPS, layouts, plugin, usage stats
Anyone else getting completely bogged down by a mad flurry of year-end activity? I’m very behind on blog posts at the moment, so much that we have new features and initiatives that are already implemented, just waiting for the “official...
by Andrew Su | Nov 18, 2008 | BioGPS, extensibility, plugin
So far, we’ve introduced the simple BioGPS plugin interface, and shown how this interface was used to construct an extensive plugin library. Browsing the BioGPS plugin library, you’ll undoubtedly note that the vast majority of plugins we’ve hooked up...
by Andrew Su | Nov 11, 2008 | BioGPS, customizability, layouts, plugin
In the last post, we described how the BioGPS plugin interface will be based on simple HTML. Before we go into exactly how this will work technically, let’s first look at the power and extensibility it enables.We previously described that customizability is a...
by Andrew Su | Nov 6, 2008 | BioGPS, extensibility, plugin
HTML.That’s it, the simple HyperText Markup Language, the backbone of the Web, will be the BioGPS data exchange protocol.First, let’s step back a moment. We’ve always had the goal of extensibility as one of the two central themes of BioGPS, since the...
by Andrew Su | Oct 31, 2008 | BioGPS
I blogged previously about my rule of 80% duplication, 20% innovation. That post discussed why there are so many gene-centric portals available which all present mostly-overlapping annotation and data. I attributed this phenomenon to the lack of a mechanism for data...
by Andrew Su | Oct 22, 2008 | BioGPS
A good way to learn about BioGPS and its capabilities is to just search for your gene or genes of interest, and then poke around with all the tabs and buttons. BioGPS is pretty hard to break, so don’t worry about doing anything “wrong”.On the other...
