BioGPS retrospective – the four year anniversary

Posted by on May 8, 2012 in BioGPS, usage stats | 0 comments  Through the generous support from NIGMS, we have enjoyed stable funding for BioGPS development since 2008. During that time, we think we’ve made great progress building our community-extensible and user-customizable gene portal. It’s worth recapping how the last four years have gone relative to what we originally proposed. For completeness, I’m posting the full text of...
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BioGPS is growing faster than Moore's Law

Posted by on May 17, 2010 in BioGPS, layouts, plugin, usage stats | 0 comments Granted, BioGPS is a software application, and Moore’s Law is derived from improvements in computer hardware. But inasmuch as Moore’s Law is generally equated with “rapid growth”, we’re happy that BioGPS meets or exceeds it on all the usage metrics we’ve looked at. And now the details… Every May we prepare a progress report for the good folks at the NIH...
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Gene Wiki stats for January 2010

Posted by on Feb 5, 2010 in Gene Wiki, usage stats | 2 comments Whenever I lack for inspiration for a blog post, or whenever we need a pick-me-up in the form of evidence that our work is being used, I fire off an update of our usage metrics. Yesterday, I ran an update of the Gene Wiki stats. For the month of January 2010: The 9860 Gene Wiki pages were viewed 3,016,227 times. 91% of Gene Wiki pages are in the top 8 Google results when searching by gene...
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Usage update: November 2009

Posted by on Nov 16, 2009 in BioGPS, usage stats | 0 comments It’s been several months since the last usage update in June so I thought I’d post some updated numbers. In addition to the standard metrics below, I plotted our growth in page views and website visits over time starting at the beginning of 2009: Between January and October 2009, we had a roughly 13% and 16% monthly growth rate in page views and visits, respectively. It’s...
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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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Updated BioGPS usage metrics

Posted by on Jun 5, 2009 in BioGPS, usage stats | 0 comments It’s been a couple of months since the last usage update so I thought I’d post some updated numbers. In May 2009, we had 16272 visits from 8301 unique visitors, resulting in 122,250 pageviews. And although we provide the options for users to http://symatlas.gnf.org to go back to SymAtlas, over 80% of users choose to use BioGPS. There are currently 128 registered public plugins in...
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