by ginger | Aug 4, 2017 | citizen science, Dazzle4Rare, mark2cure, polls
From August 13th to August 20th, Mark2Cure will be participating in the #Dazzle4Rare campaign to raise awareness for rare diseases. Did you know? About 10% of the population lives with a rare disease, and roughly 50% of rare diseases don’t have any sort of...
by ginger | Jul 14, 2017 | #citscichat, biomedical research, citizen science, mark2cure, presentation
New Mark2Cure Video added to our youtube playlist! The Citizen Science Conference in May was very productive, and the last of Mark2Cure’s recorded talks is now available on our youtube channel. As previously mentioned, Max delivered the project slam for...
by ginger | Jun 18, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, conference, mark2cure, presentation
A HUGE thanks to all the dads (and EVERYONE) who has been contributing to make a difference for the NGLY1 families. Shipping delays Apologies to international prize and drawing winners who were waiting for their prizes. Most of the international packages that we...
by ginger | May 26, 2017 | citizen science, CitSci2017, Cochrane Crowd, conference, mark2cure, MedLitBlitz, poster, presentation
The last few weeks have been a bit hectic, so we’ve got plenty of news and info to share with you. First of all, if you haven’t seen it yet, Cochrane Crowd has posted about about our joint webinar and the #MedLitBlitz. If you missed the webinar or had...
by ginger | May 16, 2017 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, mark2cure, MedLitBlitz
Mark2Curathon Results Sorry for the delay, the Mark2Curathon results are finally in! During the Mark2Cure portion of MedLit Blitz, we had 34 participants contribute over 16,000 annotations. Because both the entity recognition and the relationship extraction tasks are...
by ginger | May 11, 2017 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, mark2cure, MedLitBlitz
Our anniversary celebration with Cochrane Crowd is well under way. #MedLitBlitz started with a webinar on Monday, and was followed by the Cochrane screening challenge from Tuesday to Wednesday. During that challenge, over 100 MedLit Blitzers screened 29,494...
