by ginger | Jan 29, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, games, mark2cure
We couldn’t have done it without our Mark2Curators, so of course we’ve made the preprint of the manuscript freely available. The link in the acknowledgment section might not be live yet, as we’re still collecting ‘opt-in’ preferences from our users. If...
by ginger | Jan 22, 2016 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open science
If it hasn’t been evident enough from the Gene Wiki activity, or BioGPS’s community expandable resources (plugins), or our citizen science initiative, Mark2Cure, we’re very enthusiastic about crowdsourcing and community-based resources here in the Su...
by ginger | Jan 15, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
New doc set available We opened up a new doc set this morning which needs your brain power! This doc set is curated around a biological process called ‘autophagy’, and its involvement in the development of seizures. Autophagy is how cells recycle cellular...
by ginger | Dec 31, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
It’s the last day of the year and the perfect time to review the huge strides that Mark2Cure made in 2015. Around this time last year, we conducted an extremely limited beta test just to check and see if this could be done and after 3-5 people completed a set of about...
by ginger | Dec 25, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Thank you for your contributions to Mark2Cure! We’ll review the amazing things you’ve done next week. For now, we wish you and your family a happy, healthy, and very merry X-mas holiday. PS- Thank you for the awesome present—finishing the Eeyarestatin doc set...
by ginger | Dec 9, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Last Wednesday, our lead programmer (Max) was the guest speaker for the San Diego Bioinformatics User Series over at UCSD. We were thrilled to see a Mark2Curator show up for his talk (big shout out to TAdams), and understand that not everyone who wanted to attend...
