by Andrew Su | Apr 2, 2009 | BioGPS, customizability, extensibility, plugin, usage stats
It’s been one week since we started redirecting SymAtlas users to BioGPS, and we’ve been thrilled with the response so far. Comparing the seven days after the change with the seven days before, we see a 55% increase in BioGPS page views (25,871 vs 16,726)...
by Andrew Su | Feb 26, 2009 | BioGPS, extensibility, feature, plugin
Well, truth be told, the ability for users to register their own plugins in BioGPS has been live for quite a while. The only thing holding up the official announcement has been the creation of the accompanying screencast, which thankfully is now done.But make no...
by Andrew Su | Jan 19, 2009 | BioGPS, customizability, extensibility
Recently, GenomeWeb did a pretty extensive write-up of BioGPS. I think it’s a pretty detailed and accurate view of how BioGPS fits into the sphere of online biological resources. The only part I take a bit of issue with is the series of quotes by Larry Moran,...
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 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 | Jul 25, 2008 | BioGPS, customizability, extensibility, long tail, symatlas
BioGPS is our new gene annotation portal. As mentioned previously, the unique feature of BioGPS will be its unwavering commitment to the Long Tail.If you’re passionate about the concept of the Long Tail as I’ve grown to become, you can certainly spend long...
