by Andrew Su | Sep 15, 2009 | BioGPS, community intelligence, Gene Wiki, long tail, usage stats
Our second paper on the Gene Wiki ijkey=70heWcVDzEvSzl5&keytype;=ref “>was published online today in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. It will also be included in the 2010 Database issue in January. From the concluding paragraph of the introduction:Here, we...
by Andrew Su | Jun 5, 2009 | BioGPS, usage stats
It’s been a couple of months since the last usage update so I thought I’d post some updated numbers. In May 2009, we had 16272 visits from 8301 unique visitors, resulting in 122,250 pageviews.And although we provide the options for users to...
by Andrew Su | Apr 6, 2009 | BioGPS, usage stats
To follow up on the previously-posted usage metrics, I did a quick analysis of our registered BioGPS users, and here’s the top 10 institutions represented (outside of GNF, of course):Harvard UniversityScripps Research InstituteUniversity of North...
by Andrew Su | Apr 2, 2009 | BioGPS, customizability, extensibility, plugin, usage stats
It’s been one week since we started redirecting SymAtlas users to BioGPS, and we’ve been thrilled with the response so far. Comparing the seven days after the change with the seven days before, we see a 55% increase in BioGPS page views (25,871 vs 16,726)...
by Andrew Su | Dec 4, 2008 | BioGPS, layouts, plugin, usage stats
Anyone else getting completely bogged down by a mad flurry of year-end activity? I’m very behind on blog posts at the moment, so much that we have new features and initiatives that are already implemented, just waiting for the “official...
by Andrew Su | Aug 21, 2008 | BioGPS, layouts, symatlas, usage stats
We know that we have a pretty loyal base of SymAtlas users. And it’s because of that knowledge that we don’t tread lightly on making changes to this well-used resource. But SymAtlas is getting a bit long in the tooth, and at some point in the foreseeable...