by bgood | Feb 28, 2011 | Gene Wiki
For the Gene Wiki aficionado and Twitter users among us, we’re happy to announce the Gene Wiki Pulse! Why follow this new service?Know who is editing the Gene Wiki, live and in real-timeBrowse serendipitously through a dynamic #network of #people, #genes, and...
by Andrew Su | Feb 21, 2011 | conference, Gene Wiki
Following on the last post about our upcoming presentation at Bio-IT World, I realized that I should also highlight two other upcoming presentations. These two presentations will be on the Gene Wiki, and specifically on our efforts to mine novel gene annotations out...
by Andrew Su | Sep 30, 2010 | Gene Wiki
Just a quick note that Ben Good and I will be presenting for the NCBO’s webinar series next week on the Gene Wiki. The title of the talk will be “The Gene Wiki: Cultivating and mining community intelligence in biology”. Feel free to join in if...
by Andrew Su | Aug 5, 2010 | Gene Wiki
Even though this blog was initially created to cover our BioGPS gene portal application, one of the broader themes of our group’s research is harnessing community intelligence in biology. And aside from BioGPS, our other main project in this space is the Gene Wiki...
by Andrew Su | May 22, 2010 | Gene Wiki
Recently, Rod Page proposed to add NCBI Taxonomy IDs to Wikipedia pages. Rod outlines the scientific rationale which I won’t repeat here, but I think it’s safe to say that from the scientific perspective, the benefits seem to far outweigh the...
by Andrew Su | Feb 5, 2010 | Gene Wiki, usage stats
Whenever I lack for inspiration for a blog post, or whenever we need a pick-me-up in the form of evidence that our work is being used, I fire off an update of our usage metrics. Yesterday, I ran an update of the Gene Wiki stats.For the month of January 2010:The 9860...
