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Happy Halloween
If you love science and enjoy learning, you’re in for a treat! Andrew (the brains behind Mark2Cure) will be holding a webinar using two case studies (the Gene Wiki Project and Mark2Cure) to illustrate the use of crowdsourcing as it applies to knowledge management for translational research. Registeration is free
Upcoming Cancer Variant Interpretation Hackathon and Curation Jamboree
This Oct. 15-16 event brings together developers, bioinformaticians, pathologists, oncologists, genome scientists & more to tackle precision medicine.
Wikidata SPARQL Query Log Item and Property Co-occurrence Analysis
This is part 2 of a blog post describing Wikidata SPARQL query logs. Part 1 is here. In this part, we'll look at the most used items and specifically look at diseases, drugs, genes and proteins. And then look at co-occurrence of properties within queries.. Below is a...
Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis
We recently gained access to the anonymised logs of several hundred million SPARQL queries from the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint. This blog post contains some discussion about the main takeaway points, while the full analysis and code can be found here. What are we...
BioThings- Other Biothings in the works
By now, you’ve probably seen the announcement that our renewal grant application has been approved. In addition to funding the improvement of MyGene.info, and the extension of lessons learned from MyVariant.info, the renewal grant will fund the development of a BioThings Software Development Kit (SDK). To our knowledge
MyVariant- Lesson’s learned and what’s in store
We learned a lot from building MyVariant.info to be a fast, RESTful API for gene variant annotation–here’s how we’ll apply what we learned.
The anniversary of Mark2Cure’s official launch is coming soon
Mark2Cure’s 3rd anniversary is coming up, and we are extremely grateful for the opportunity to have interacted and learned from you over the last few years! You make this project interesting. You make this project interesting and exciting. You make this project educational and humbling. You make this project useful
Sneak peek–what’s in store for MyGene.info
As of the most recent data update on April 24th to build version 20180422, the MyGene.info db grew to contain 22,132,511 documents. As a valuable service that has seen over 20 million requests in the last 30 days, MyGene.info was fortunate enough to receive renewed support
Happy Citizen Science Day Hero Badge Hunting!
Citizen Science Day was April 14th this year, and Mark2Cure partnered with the San Diego Public Library to host a local Citizen Science Expo. Of course, many of our wonderful contributors are not in San Diego and could not attend the event. For those of you who wish to get
Citizen Science Day 2018 is just around the corner!
San Diego Citizen Science Day Expo
Citizen Science Day is on April 14th, this year and many citizen science organizations (including yours truly) are hosting citizen science events. Here in San Diego, we’ve teamed up with the San Diego Public Library and the Wet Lab group to put on the