The Centralized Model Organism Database

Posted by on Aug 9, 2012 in community-annotation, database, gene ontology, genome biology, GO, long tail | 0 comments This guest post was written by Adriel Carolino, a summer intern who has been spearheading this project to create a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD). The recent explosion of metagenomic sequencing has resulted in an immense expanse of microbial genetic information.  Current metagenomic analyses typically revolve around a taxonomic survey — describing what microbial species are...
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Twenty questions for genes — try it out

Posted by on Sep 23, 2011 in community intelligence, games, GO, long tail | 0 comments Part 1: Introduction to the concept Part 2: The prototype game (this post) Part 3: Evaluation framework We recently posted on this blog the idea of creating a computer engine to play the game 20 questions. But instead of asking users to thing of common objects in the world, we’d ask people to think of their favorite gene. Well, I took advantage of a recent long weekend to throw together a...
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Twenty questions for genes

Posted by on Jul 26, 2011 in community intelligence, games, GO, long tail | 0 comments Part 1: Introduction to the concept (this post) Part 2: The prototype game Part 3: Evaluation framework If I asked you to think of your favorite gene, do you think I could guess the identity of that gene by first asking you twenty yes / no questions? I personally might not be a very good guesser in this game, but I’m betting that we can write a computer program that would be pretty...
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Gene Wiki update paper

Posted by on Sep 15, 2009 in BioGPS, community intelligence, Gene Wiki, long tail, usage stats | 0 comments 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 present an update describing the recent systematic improvements to the Gene Wiki. Moreover, we report on a retrospective analysis...
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The Gene Wiki

Posted by on Aug 15, 2008 in Gene Wiki, long tail | 0 comments I guess many others have blogged about it, and now that we have a blog of our own, seems like we should join the crowd. Recently, we published a paper in PLoS Biology describing an effort we call the Gene Wiki. The Gene Wiki is an informal collection of Wikipedia pages focused on human genes. In total there are currently about 9000 gene pages in the Gene Wiki. Although most of these pages...
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What is BioGPS?

Posted by on Jul 25, 2008 in BioGPS, customizability, extensibility, long tail, symatlas | 6 comments BioGPS is our new gene annotation portal. As mentioned previously, the unique feature of BioGPS will be its unwavering commitment to the Long Tail. If you’re passionate about the concept of the Long Tail as I’ve grown to become, you can certainly spend long hours reading up on the subject. But on a practical level, our focus on the Long Tail means two things for users of our BioGPS...
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