by ginger | Jul 25, 2014 | Biomedical Informatics, hockey, mygene.info, Su lab members, sulab, Surfing, work
The Mysterious Genius of the Su Lab remained quite the mystery even after I’d been with the lab for a month. Where did he come from? Where does he vanish to? What is he working on? Given the extremely varied backgrounds of the other Su lab members, it would make...
by Andrew Su | Jul 9, 2014 | BioGPS, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, jobs, mygene.info, recruiting, research
Several months ago I put out a call for postdocs applicants. Combined with other recruiting efforts, the lab has grown with several new positions — two postdocs (starting in the fall, and more upcoming interviews), our Scientific Outreach Program Manager, and an...
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 Chunlei Wu | Apr 22, 2014 | BioThings, crowdsourcing, mygene.info
The 1st Network of BioThings Hackathon is just around the corner. To respond to Andrew’s call for ideas, here I throw an idea out for everyone. With the recent boom of next-gen sequencing technology, data of genomic variants are increasingly accessible to...
by Chunlei Wu | Oct 1, 2013 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, mygene.info, web services
ID mapping is a very common, and often not fun, task for every bioinformatician. Suppose you have a list of gene symbols or reporter ids from an upstream analysis, and then your next analysis requires the use of gene IDs (e.g. Entrez gene IDs or Ensembl gene IDs)....
by Chunlei Wu | Jul 15, 2013 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, mygene.info, web services
We are happy to announce that the MyGene.info Version 2 Application Programming Interface (API) is now live. In the v2 API, we have rebuilt the core framework, which increases both data capacity and query performance significantly. For those who are...
