by ginger | Apr 28, 2017 | citizen science, Cochrane Crowd, mark2cure, scistarter
It’s citizen science season and we’re in the thick of it! First off, welcome new users! If you found us from the latest SciStarter campaign, feel free ping us on twitter to let us know so we can pass our thanks to the @SciStarter team! We’re very excited to be...
by ginger | Apr 14, 2017 | citizen science, mark2cure
Upcoming event — Med Lit Blitz! Extracting information from biomedical literature is a huge problem that many researchers are trying to solve computationally. Mark2Cure approaches the biomedical literature problem with citizen science in hopes of enhancing...
by ginger | Mar 31, 2017 | citizen science, mark2cure
Pilocarpine is a drug that was frequently identified by our Mark2Cure citizen scientists and volunteers in the previous sets of biomedical literature. It was often found in the context of seizures or tears—both of which are symptoms associated with NGLY1 deficiency....
by ginger | Mar 17, 2017 | citizen science, mark2cure
Current progress in Mark2Cure Thanks to our wonderful community of citizen scientists and volunteers, the NFE2L1 entity recognition mission is now 99% complete! If you haven’t already completed quests in this mission, please help us finish it! The other entity...
by ginger | Dec 30, 2016 | citizen science, community-annotation, mark2cure
Happy New Year!!! Thank you for contributing to Mark2Cure with your annotations, comments, questions, bug reports–and general feedback. You’ve made the Mark2Cure project an amazing project to work on and we are so grateful that you found us. Many of you...
by ginger | Dec 23, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, games, mark2cure, press
We just have three quick pieces of news to share: NIH/NCATS which funds our research has decided to do a feature story on Mark2Cure. This would NEVER have happened without your contributions to the project, so THANK YOU! You can find the feature here:...
