RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Gene Information eXtension (GIX): effortless retrieval of gene product information on any website
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 532523
DO 10.1101/532523
A1 James D.R. Knight
A1 Payman Samavarchi-Tehrani
A1 Mike Tyers
A1 Anne-Claude Gingras
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/04/13/532523.abstract
AB Retrieving information about genes and gene products is a constant and timeconsuming aspect of systems biology research. While there are many high quality and well-designed resources to fulfill this need, they require the user to navigate to different and often complex websites, execute a search, select the desired result and then view retrieved information. This task can be a repetitive, burdensome and disruptive process, for example when exploring the results of large scale genomics or proteomics screens or reading an online article. To address this issue we have developed a browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox called GIX, for Gene Information eXtension, that allows users to retrieve customizable gene product information - especially as it relates to proteins and their expression and functions - directly on a website without having to navigate to another page.