by Chunlei Wu | May 20, 2010 | BioGPS, tech
As we hinted in our earlier post, we have now officially moved our gene query engine from Oracle to CouchDB. We quietly completed the migration last Friday, and so far, everything has run pretty smoothly. There were no significant visual changes in the user interface,...
by Chunlei Wu | May 11, 2010 | BioGPS, tech
As a preview of a big upcoming change in BioGPS, we have been working for several months on a migration of our database from Oracle to CouchDB. We are also moving our gene annotation to the cloud by hosting our CouchDB instance at Amazon EC2.We have generally been...
by Chunlei Wu | Jan 26, 2009 | BioGPS, tech
Ed note: This is the first technical post here on the BioGPS blog. As we encounter and solve more roadblocks in our BioGPS development process, we thought we’d share them with our users and other developers. Feel free to read or ignore, depending on your...