ISMB 2012 recap

Posted by on Jul 23, 2012 in bio-ontologies, BioGPS, community intelligence, Gene Wiki, ISMB2012 | 0 comments (In addition to Ben’s recap posted on Friday…) Several members of the lab returned last week from a fantastic ISMB 2012 conference July 13-17. As always, the science was fantastic, as was the networking with colleagues and collaborators. The Su Lab was also well-represented in the conference program. Ben Good organized a Special Session on Harnessing community intelligence for...
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Thanks for your support

Posted by on Jun 4, 2012 in BioGPS | 0 comments  A couple weeks ago, we posted an open invitation on BioGPS to write a letter in support of our proposal to continue BioGPS development. We also emailed some of our most trusted and loyal uses directly. “I find BioGPS to be the best portal on the web.” In response, we received 34 fantastic letters from users expressing their enthusiasm for BioGPS and...
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BioGPS funding – we need your help!

Posted by on May 10, 2012 in BioGPS | 1 comment   So the last two posts in this series have recapped four years of progress and outlined our path forward for BioGPS. Now, we are asking for your help. Having reviewed tool development proposals for NIH study sections before, I know that evaluating proposals for software tools is quite difficult. If the paper proposal is all you have, then you make your best guess as to the value of the...
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Mapping the future of BioGPS

Posted by on May 9, 2012 in BioGPS | 0 comments After four productive years of funding from NIGMS, we have a bit over a year left on our current grant for BioGPS. In addition to releasing some new features for data set visualization and management (our current Specific Aim #1), we are planning to spend significant time developing the aims and preliminary data for our renewal application. So what are we planning next for BioGPS? We want to...
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BioGPS retrospective – the four year anniversary

Posted by on May 8, 2012 in BioGPS, usage stats | 0 comments  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 how the last four years have gone relative to what we originally proposed. For completeness, I’m posting the full text of...
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