by eclarke | Apr 30, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, mashup, semantic web, semantic wikipedia, SPARQL, wiki, wikipedia
Our presentation at the Semantic MediaWiki Conference was a smashing hit! I discussed the software we developed to create GeneWiki+, which we’ve christened mwsync. Mwsync is a cool little Java framework that makes it easy to maintain a live mirror of any...
by Andrew Su | Apr 30, 2012 | BioGPS, games, Gene Wiki, GSoC
We’re proud to introduce Crowdsourcing Biology’s first class of GSoC Scholars! In no particular order: Max Ludvigsson: I am a undergraduate student from Sweden. I am currently studying engineering physics and as I am interested in both biology and...
by bgood | Apr 25, 2012 | games, Gene Wiki, genewiki+, presentation, san diego, sulab
Last Friday I had the honor of speaking at the Salk Institute ‘Systems to Synthesis’ Symposium. I introduced the idea of games with a biological purpose, showed off our early results with Dizeez and plugged some of the prototypes appearing at...
by bgood | Apr 23, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, semantic web, SPARQL, sulab
Thanks to Leyla and Alex Garcia-Castro from UniProt and Florida State University respectively, we now have access to a SPARQL endpoint for the data in the Gene Wiki. Access it live here:http://virtuoso.idiginfo.org/sparql(update on 4-28-12 , that is down and a...
by bgood | Mar 22, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, semantic links, semantic web, semantic wikipedia, sulab, SWL, wiki
A while back, I posted an entry here called “Stepping towards a Semantic Wikipedia” that quickly became the most-visited post on this blog. Today, after several months of waiting, I discovered by accident that the official peer-reviewed article on...
by Andrew Su | Mar 16, 2012 | BioGPS, games, Gene Wiki, GSoC
On Friday, we were thrilled to learn that we were accepted to the Google Summer of Code program for 2012! Now in its eighth year, this program pairs students with open source projects for summer internships. Google pays the student a stipend, we get smart...
