WebMedCentral is a “post publication peer review” publication. The purpose of the site is for the fast, open, transparent and free dissemination of biomedical data. The process is to publish your research and the the review process happens after publication. You can see more about this on their site’s peer review policy. I can see the [...]
This week’s tip introduces BioGPS, or Gene Portal System. We get a lot of questions about two things that BioGPS can help you to tackle: what do I do with a list of genes to find out what they are? And the next question people have after that is: and where are they expressed? BioGPS [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Public health in the genomic era, a report by PHG Foundation, is out. You can access [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Shout out to Daniel MacArthur and Paul D. who sought us out at ASHG to say [...]
I’m catching up with some mailing lists and news and I came across this interesting tidbit from our friends in the GMOD community. We are huge supporters of curation by humans for a couple of reasons: 1) we know the quality of that information can be the best and it captures so much of the [...]
In the continuing effort to get scientists and researchers to annotate and curate data and to capture the huge amount of knowledge available, UCSC Genome Browser has added a wiki annotation track to the browser. It’s not the first effort of course, GeneWiki is an effort, with mixed results so far, to annotate gene function [...]
PLoS Biology has an article out today entitled “A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function.” The article describes the authors attempts to create a comprehensive gene wiki of gene functions by ‘seeding’ Wikipedia with a foundation of ‘stub’ articles with information from existing databases (such as Entrez Gene). This foundation would then be [...]
Speaking of Genbank’s 25th, a few weeks ago Science had a news piece “Proposal to ‘Wikify’ Genbank Meets Stiff Resistance.” Apparently, those in the Mycology research community have found many inaccuracies in the Genbank records and wish to see a change that would allow annotations to be made by the community: a scheme like those [...]
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