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Three doc sets down!
Last week, Mark2Curators completed the FBX-Engase doc set which was roughly 30% the size of the Alacrima doc set. Forty-five Mark2Curators made submitted 11,177 annotations in 767 separate contributions as seen below: Six users completed almost every doc in the...
FBX2-Engase Doc set…DONE!
With the newest doc set on oxidative stress launched just last week, the Mark2Cure community wrapped up the FBX2-Engase doc set up this week. In this doc set, 6 users completed almost every doc available in this set (skye, carawgoalie, … Continue reading →
MyVariant.py: our Python client for MyVariant.info services
We are happy to announce that the official Python client (“MyVariant.py”) for our MyVariant.info web services is now available from PyPI (the Python Package Index).
MyVariant.py allows users to annotate or query for human variants, either a single variant or a list of variants, without making explicit
MyVariant.py: our Python client for MyVariant.info services
We are happy to announce that the official Python client (“MyVariant.py”) for our MyVariant.info web services is now available from PyPI (the Python Package Index).
MyVariant.py allows users to annotate or query for human variants, either a single variant or a list of variants, without making explicit
New Doc Set and a preliminary look at the data generated by Mark2Cure
Thanks to the Mark2Cure community, two doc sets have now been completed: Alacrima and Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG). The CDG doc set was large, encompassing over 480 biomedical research abstracts. We are launching another large set today on Oxidative...
Detecting Cheaters in a Crowdsourcing Task
Similar to how Amazon Mechanical Turk was used to help us learn about concept recognition in the context of crowdsourcing, our lab has been utilizing the CrowdFlower platform to learn about relationship extraction. Unfortunately, we found a small subset of task...
BioGPS Spotlight on TISSUES
It's been awhile since we posted something for our Spotlight series; however, we couldn't pass up profiling an awesome resource like this one. Given the number questions posted to the BioGPS google groups about gene expression and distribution, TISSUES is resource...
CDG doc set done!
Composed of ~483 abstracts, the CDG doc set was one of the largest sets in Mark2Cure’s Campaign for NGLY1. This set was completed sometime on Tuesday night (07/28) and is the second doc set to be completed by the Mark2Cure … Continue reading →
Can it be done? Can we finish 15 quests this weekend?
New features and fixes: Earlier, we introduced the document-specific ‘talk pages’, without too much fanfare since we wanted to ensure that it was working properly. Now that we’ve seen a few users jump in and demonstrate that it seems to … Continue reading →
At 95% Complete, the CDG doc set is almost done
This has been a rather large doc set, so you’ve all been amazing in bringing it this far. With around 480 docs in this set, we expected that completing this set would take some time. As of today, only 19 … Continue reading →