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Uh-oh, Biostar: Three Years of User Metrics Analysis
It is March again and that calls for another annual follow-up of my investigations (1st year, 2nd year and bonus blog posts) into Biostar’s forum quality. Biostar is a public internet forum for the bioinformatics community where registered users can get help on a wide range of topics. Over the years I became convinced that […]
BioStar: Activity of its BioStars
March 20, 2012
This mini-series post visualises member activity within the BioStar forum. I provide stream graphs that show the total number of forum interactions, number of questions asked, number of answers provided and number of forum edits for each BioStar member since the BioStar’s inauguration in September 2009 on a monthly basis. The graphs reveal some true stars of […]
BioStar: Is the BioStar fading? An Annual Follow-Up.
March 11, 2012
One year has passed since I asked the provocative question: “Is the BioStar fading?“. At the time I concluded that the BioStar was not fading, even though the data suggested that it was not flourishing either. I have now crawled the BioStar web-sites again and updated the statistical plots from last year with up-to-date data […]
pubmed2ensembl: Query Improvements
October 8, 2011
Following my first post of the relatively new “mini” series, I have made some further improvements to the pubmed2ensembl query wrapper. Two new features are now implemented in bioknack‘s bk_pubmed2ensembl.rb script: retrieval of PubMed Central IDs besides the already retrievable PubMed IDs, and querying of Ensembl gene IDs by PubMed Central/PubMed ID Brief Recap www.pubmed2ensembl.org is a […]
bioknack’s pubmed2ensembl Query Wrapper
June 17, 2011
This is the first post in a new “mini” series of tool features and research results. Unlike previous long winded blog posts, the mini series only features a very short description of the topic, gives an example and concludes. bioknack‘s collection of tools has been extended with a small command line tool for retrieving the […]
BioStar: Is the BioStar fading?
March 7, 2011
BioStar is an open forum for bioinformaticians where questions can openly be asked and the forum’s subscriber-community provides answers. Everyone can vote questions and answers up or down as to give them a qualitative rating. BioStar is essentially a bio-clone of the famous stackoverflow. Over the past weeks I have noticed a change in the quality […]
Ruby Goodies
June 19, 2010
Ruby is an interpreted language very similar to Python, but it also borrows syntax and semantics from Perl and other languages wherever appropriate. Its strength lies in the readability of Ruby programs, which are concise and yet syntactically naturally to understand. In the following I give some examples of very powerful implementations that only take […]
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