by Andrew Su | Oct 9, 2014 | BD2K, big data, grant
Today, the NIH announced several new awards under the Big Data To Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. I’m very excited to announce that our group will be participating in one of the BD2K Centers of Excellence. Our awarded proposal is titled “A Community Effort to...
by Chunlei Wu | May 20, 2014 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, grant, mygene.info, web services
It has been almost a year since we released the v2 API of MyGene.info services last July. MyGene.info has grown from an internal service behind BioGPS to a robust, high-performance service provider for anybody to query for up-to-date gene annotation data. Currently,...
by bgood | Mar 21, 2014 | breast cancer, crowdsourcing, games, genegames, grant, gwaps, machine learning, NIH, r21, sulab, thecure
Last November, Andrew and I submitted an R21 proposal for consideration by the NIH. Today, we received the summary statement. Since a lot of work went into writing it, I feel compelled to share it regardless of whether its ever funded (which currently...
by Andrew Su | Dec 4, 2013 | bio-ontologies, bioinformatics, BioThings, breast cancer, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, games, grant, mass collaboration, semantic web
I offer an idea, and a proposal… What: We want to structure biological knowledge by annotating BioThings (genes, proteins, mutations, diseases, and drugs) in biomedical research articles. We want to comprehensively annotate the mentions of these BioThings in...
by Andrew Su | Jul 30, 2013 | BioGPS, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH, usage stats
This is the first blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. First, let’s recap a bit of history on our Gene Wiki project. We originally proposed the Gene Wiki as one aim of our NIH grant to develop BioGPS, an crowdsourced online portal...
by Andrew Su | Jul 29, 2013 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH
My group recently submitted a grant proposal to the NIH (a “competing renewal”) to continue our work developing the Gene Wiki. In case you haven’t been following, the goal of the Gene Wiki is to create a collaboratively-written, community-reviewed,...
