Data Chart Plugin Beta

Posted by on Feb 1, 2013 in BioGPS, plugin, visualization, web development | 1 comment How shall we find the concord of this discord? —William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream   Big news coming out of the Su Lab today! As you may know, we’ve been doing a lot of work recently on the presentation of our datasets stored in BioGPS. After we completed the ability to easily browse and view datasets, we wanted to take it a step further and make it possible organize,...
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New BioGPS and MyGene.info Paper published

Posted by on Jan 30, 2013 in BioGPS, mygene.info | 0 comments In this first post of the new year, we are happy to report that the update paper on BioGPS and MyGene.info is now published in the Nucleic Acids Research Database issue:   This paper highlights the exciting updates on BioGPS since our first paper was published in 2009. These improvements result from contributions by both our users and our team of BioGPS developers. As some evidence of...
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Introducing the Dataset Library

Posted by on Nov 20, 2012 in BioGPS | 3 comments We’re very excited to announce the addition of the Dataset Library to BioGPS! As I mentioned in my last blog post BioGPS now has thousands of datasets available for browsing. Providing this many datasets comes with some challenges, including making them easy to search and navigate for our BioGPS users. Version 2.0 of the data chart plugin was the first step towards these goals, and the...
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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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Data chart plugin version 2.0

Posted by on Jul 3, 2012 in BioGPS | 2 comments The data chart plugin on BioGPS is by far the most popular, and as a result we’ve been working on some big changes to make it even more useful. Yesterday we deployed these changes in version 2.0 of the data chart plugin, which now includes the following: 1. Much more data! Many users love BioGPS because of its simple and intuitive way of visualizing expression data. Previously, you were...
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Autocomplete widget for gene query

Posted by on Jun 25, 2012 in BioGPS, bioinformatics, mygene.info | 1 comment Bioinformatics web developers often face one common problem — adding a search box that allows users to type a gene, which then directs them to a gene-specific resource page. To implement this feature, developers need to maintain a gene annotation database of their own, and then write the interface to link the user input to the backend query. Moreover, they also need to keep their gene...
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