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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Introducing BioGPS 2.0

Posted by on Apr 12, 2011 in BioGPS, feature, plugin, search | 0 comments The BioGPS team is very excited to announce the public release of BioGPS version 2.0! There are a bunch of changes included in this update: 1. New logo As mentioned in a previous blog post the BioGPS team decided that it was time for a new logo. After considering the many great submissions from our logo contest we are happy to officially unveil the winner, which is now being used site-wide. 2....
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We love model organisms too

Posted by on Jul 1, 2010 in BioGPS, plugin | 0 comments Given our group’s interests in mammalian biology, we initially focused on gene annotation data from just three species — human, mouse and rat. However, the plugin concept that BioGPS uses is easily extensible to other organisms as well. Therefore, we recently added four additional species to BioGPS (all popular model organisms), bringing our total count to seven. The added species...
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Taking ownership of your plugin

Posted by on Jun 9, 2010 in BioGPS, plugin | 0 comments Early on in BioGPS’s development, we were heavily focused on getting as many plugins registered in as short a time period as possible. And because our plugin interface is so trivially simple, we were able to add plugins for a whole lot of popular sites (e.g., Entrez Gene, Ensembl, UniProt) and a whole lot of not-so-popular sites (e.g., GENSAT, GONUTS, and HuGE Navigator) all by ourselves...
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Spotlight: International Knockout Mouse Consortium

Posted by on Jun 4, 2010 in BioGPS, plugin, spotlight | 0 comments This week, we profile the International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) in our latest Spotlight post. In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.The IKMC web portal is the official web site for the International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC), including KOMP, EUCOMM, NorCOMM, & TIGM. Why is your database unique and special?The IKMC aims to mutate all...
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Spotlight: GoPubMed

Posted by on May 28, 2010 in BioGPS, plugin, spotlight | 0 comments This week, our featured plugin in the Spotlight series is for GoPubMed. Check out their new BioGPS plugin, and read all about this new resource below: In one tweet (140 characters) or less, introduce us to your website.GoPubMed is a web service for summarization and exploration of large citation collections that result from a user’s PubMed query. Why is your database unique and...
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