by ginger | Jan 5, 2017 | annual summary, BioGPS, publication, Su lab, usage stats
BioGPS opened 2016 with a publication in Nucleic Acids Research, right after the New Year holiday. Throughout the year, new designs for the site were being created, reviewed, adjusted, reviewed, adjusted, and more review/adjustments in anticipation of a site redesign...
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 | May 8, 2012 | BioGPS, usage stats
Through the generous support from NIGMS, we have enjoyed stable funding for BioGPS development since 2008. During that time, we think we’ve made great progress building our community-extensible and user-customizable gene portal. It’s worth recapping...
by Andrew Su | May 17, 2010 | BioGPS, layouts, plugin, usage stats
Granted, BioGPS is a software application, and Moore’s Law is derived from improvements in computer hardware. But inasmuch as Moore’s Law is generally equated with “rapid growth”, we’re happy that BioGPS meets or exceeds it on all 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...
by Andrew Su | Nov 16, 2009 | BioGPS, usage stats
It’s been several months since the last usage update in June so I thought I’d post some updated numbers. In addition to the standard metrics below, I plotted our growth in page views and website visits over time starting at the beginning of 2009:Between...