80% duplication, 20% innovation

As we develop BioGPS, many people have asked, why develop another gene portal? With all the already-existing websites that display gene annotation, where does BioGPS fit into this crowded landscape?I think this question begs a closer look at why there are so many gene...

Is application stagnation useful?

In my last post about the Law of Inevitable Stagnation, I proposed that many (most?) web-based scientific applications eventually go stale. I mentioned this to a colleague and SymAtlas user recently, and he had an interesting suggestion. He wondered if SymAtlas...

The future of SymAtlas

We know that we have a pretty loyal base of SymAtlas users. And it’s because of that knowledge that we don’t tread lightly on making changes to this well-used resource. But SymAtlas is getting a bit long in the tooth, and at some point in the foreseeable...