by Tim Putman | Apr 5, 2016 | Gene Wiki, hackathon, proposal, Wikidata
Proposal summary: To create a model organism database web application, using Wikidata as the backend, that the microbial research community can use to load an organism and view its taxonomic information as well as genome, gene and functional annotations all in one...
by ginger | Jan 7, 2016 | Gene Wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
2015 was a busy year for the Gene Wiki/Wikidata team—a naturally collaborative and evolving group of researchers from our lab, UCLA, the University of Maryland, Micelio, and more. The team imported about 132 thousand genes (59,530 human, 73,130 mouse) from NCBI into...
by bgood | Oct 21, 2015 | Gene Wiki, lua, sulab, Wikidata, wikipedia
The Gene Wiki team has been hard at work filling wikidata with useful content about genes, diseases, and drugs using the new and improved ProteinBoxBot. Now, we are starting to see the fruits of this labor in the context of Wikipedia. Infobox for ARF6, rendered...
by ginger | May 13, 2015 | BD2K, Gene Wiki, hackathon, sulab
Let me clarify one thing from the start: My programming skills are extremely limited. That said, I was still very curious as to what a hackathon would be like and concerned about whether or not I’d be able to find a project to which I might make some sort of...
by Andrew Su | Apr 15, 2015 | BioGPS, citizen science, Gene Wiki, jobs, mark2cure, open participation science, open science, recruiting
If you follow our lab at all you’ve probably noticed some themes emerging in how we approach bioinformatics and biomedical research. To enumerate a few of those themes, we believe in: Open source: We have benefited from the long tradition of open source software...
by ginger | Feb 25, 2015 | BioGPS, Featured Article Series, Gene Wiki
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas–all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions...
