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Mark2Cure and San Diego Citizen Science Day update
Mark2Cure update The Oxidative Stress doc set is our second largest doc set in this campaign, and it’s over 96% complete. Doing just one quest in this doc set could make a huge difference in getting this doc set finished. Please help! Want to help Mark2Cure, but just...
BioGPS Plugin Registration Blitz
BioGPS is gearing up for a major redesign! We've already started consolidating our seldom-used mailing lists and will be putting more effort to keeping our users informed of the many changes that are coming to BioGPS. To celebrate the upcoming site overhaul, we're...
New doc set available in Mark2Cure
A lot has happened since our last Mark2Cure blog post. Andrew and other members of the Mark2Cure team were on twitter on Feb. 24th to talk about Mark2Cure during the citscichat focused on language-based citizen science projects. A storify of the event can be found...
Citizen Science Day Expo
(Updated 2016.04.08) We’ve been working with the La Jolla Public Library to commemorate the inaugural Citizen Science Day in the US. There will be a small Citizen Science Day Expo in San Diego which will showcase some of the many local citizen science projects that...
New Citizen Science Project!
We have previously mentioned our citizen science effort to identify biomedical concepts in text, Mark2Cure. However, there are tasks aside from text annotation that can overwhelm scientists. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM for short) is an increasingly popular...
Author page for Mark2Cure’s first paper now LIVE!
The authors page acknowledging the contributors to the Mark2Cure's first paper is now LIVE! Please note that only users who submitted annotations or contributed feedback during the beta phase will be listed on this site. If you have been following our journey since...
Updates to BioGPS
The BioGPS team has been working hard behind the scenes to ensure that BioGPS is up-to-date with the latest Django code base and that some of the broken features have been either fixed or improved. Aside from improved stability, users should now be able to use social...
Mark2Cure manuscript on Beta Phase results preprints now available
We couldn't have done it without our Mark2Curators, so of course we've made the preprint of the manuscript freely available. The link in the acknowledgment section might not be live yet, as we’re still collecting ‘opt-in’ preferences from our users. If you...
Crowdsourcing for information extraction and for peer review
If it hasn't been evident enough from the Gene Wiki activity, or BioGPS's community expandable resources (plugins), or our citizen science initiative, Mark2Cure, we're very enthusiastic about crowdsourcing and community-based resources here in the Su Lab. If you've...
New doc set in Mark2Cure
New doc set available We opened up a new doc set this morning which needs your brain power! This doc set is curated around a biological process called 'autophagy', and its involvement in the development of seizures. Autophagy is how cells recycle cellular components...