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The anniversary of Mark2Cure’s official launch is coming soon
Mark2Cure’s 3rd anniversary is coming up, and we are extremely grateful for the opportunity to have interacted and learned from you over the last few years! You make this project interesting. You make this project interesting and exciting. You make this project educational and humbling. You make this project useful
Sneak peek–what’s in store for MyGene.info
As of the most recent data update on April 24th to build version 20180422, the MyGene.info db grew to contain 22,132,511 documents. As a valuable service that has seen over 20 million requests in the last 30 days, MyGene.info was fortunate enough to receive renewed support
Happy Citizen Science Day Hero Badge Hunting!
Citizen Science Day was April 14th this year, and Mark2Cure partnered with the San Diego Public Library to host a local Citizen Science Expo. Of course, many of our wonderful contributors are not in San Diego and could not attend the event. For those of you who wish to get
Citizen Science Day 2018 is just around the corner!
San Diego Citizen Science Day Expo
Citizen Science Day is on April 14th, this year and many citizen science organizations (including yours truly) are hosting citizen science events. Here in San Diego, we’ve teamed up with the San Diego Public Library and the Wet Lab group to put on the
CitSciMedBlitz Recap and Results
Hopefully, you’ll all forgive us for the delay in announcing the results of #CitSciMedBlitz. Our partners at EyesOnAlz, Cochrane crowd, and ourselves were a little tired after the blitz and we gave ourselves a short break. Since the blitz, the EyesOnAlz team has generated the #CitSciMedBlitz digital badge for participants
CitSciMedBlitz Update
The results for Mark2Cure’s arm of the CitSciBlitz are now available! Kien Pong Yap took the top spot in this challenge (see ranking at bottom of post).
What’s exciting is that several of these names were also in the top 10 for the StallCatchers challenge so it’ll be a tough
CitSciMed Blitz has started!
It’s on! The CitSciMedblitz week of challenges have started!
If you missed the webinar detailing the three biomedical/health citizen science research projects, it is available for viewing on youtube. 
You are welcome to participate in as many or as few of the challenges as you’d like, but a trophy
CitSciMed Blitz, Rare Disease Day, and more
It’s finally February which means it’s time to prepare for Rare Disease Day 2018 and CitSciMedBlitz! This year’s theme for Rare Disease Day continues off of last year’s theme–research. According to RareDiseaseDay.org, patients are not only subjects but also proactive actors in research–and we couldn’t agree more! Mark2Cure would
Gene Wiki Data, BioThings, Mark2Cure, & more! A review of 2017 in the Su Lab
Rather than summarize the 2017 progress on in each project in separate, project-specific posts, I'm putting it all in once post this year for one important reason--recruitment! As with any academic research group, we expect to see a number of our talented team members...
New default behavior for ‘species’ parameter
MyGene.info API supports both “/gene” and “/query” endpoints. On its /query endpoint, an optional species parameter allows users to pass one or multiple species (as common species names or taxonomy ids) to filter down the query results.
Previously, the default species were set to “human,mouse,rat”. This meant