by Melissa Lau | Jun 30, 2014 | BioGPS, breast cancer, cancer, GeneOfTheWeek
America is failing. Or rather… our infrastructure is. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the condition and performance of our infrastructure is so poor, that we failed their “2013 Report Card” with a resounding grade of D+.1 Besides being...
by Kerin Higa | May 11, 2014 | BioGPS, breast cancer, cancer, GeneOfTheWeek
Last week, Melissa discussed the use of aspirin as a preventative measure against colorectal cancer. While the risks may outweigh the benefits for the general population, aspirin may be a useful treatment in specific populations (e.g., those with high levels of...
by bgood | Apr 21, 2014 | breast cancer, conference, decision-trees, games, genegames, gwaps, poster, sulab, thecure
Karthik G. and I will be presenting a poster tomorrow at the Salk Institute’s Cancer Day Symposium. We will be presenting data from a year with the scientific discovery game The Cure. You can read more about those results on the arXiv.If you are...
by bgood | Apr 21, 2014 | breast cancer, conference, decision-trees, games, genegames, gwaps, poster, sulab, thecure
Karthik G. and I will be presenting a poster tomorrow at the Salk Institute’s Cancer Day Symposium. We will be presenting data from a year with the scientific discovery game The Cure. You can read more about those results on the arXiv.If you are...
by bgood | Mar 21, 2014 | breast cancer, crowdsourcing, games, genegames, grant, gwaps, machine learning, NIH, r21, sulab, thecure
Last November, Andrew and I submitted an R21 proposal for consideration by the NIH. Today, we received the summary statement. Since a lot of work went into writing it, I feel compelled to share it regardless of whether its ever funded (which currently...
by Andrew Su | Dec 4, 2013 | bio-ontologies, bioinformatics, BioThings, breast cancer, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, games, grant, mass collaboration, semantic web
I offer an idea, and a proposal… What: We want to structure biological knowledge by annotating BioThings (genes, proteins, mutations, diseases, and drugs) in biomedical research articles. We want to comprehensively annotate the mentions of these BioThings in...
