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The Brief History of Metascape Since 2014

Five years ago (2014), we were looking for a gene-list analysis resource to recommend to biologists in our own research organizations. DAVID stood out in terms of functionality and usability, however, we noticed DAVID did not appear to be maintained. … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving Release

As the Metascape community grows through word-of-mouth recommendations, our responsibility grows as well.  In order to continue to provide a robust and scalable biologist-oriented gene-list analysis service, we have focused on implementing a brand new server architecture in 2018.  Although … Continue reading

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Welcome to Metascape’s New Blog Space

This will be the new home for Metascape’s blogs. As Metascape’s user base grows worldwide, it is important for us to reach users in countries where our previous platform was inaccessible.  Old blogs will be all migrated over.

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Analysis Report Available Offline

[This is an old blog written on Wednesday, January 31, 2018] A major goal of Metascape is to facilitate communication by presenting bioinformatics analysis results in a way that is easily interpretable to biology users.  More specifically, Metascape presents data … Continue reading

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Protein-protein Network Analysis

[This is an old blog written on Monday, January 30, 2017] The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis was introduced into Metascape (http://www.metascape.org) on Nov 2, 2016. We initially relied on BioGRID [1] as the proxy of all public-domain physical protein-protein … Continue reading

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