by ginger | Nov 26, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you all for your contributions and feedback to Mark2Cure. Mark2Cure has changed so much since the beta experiment and it’s all thanks to you! The improvements in Mark2Cure would not have happened without your input. Our Eeyarestatin...
by ginger | Nov 20, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The O-linked Glycosylation disorders doc set contained 195 abstracts, while the first misfolded and mitochondrial doc set had 105 abstracts. BOTH doc sets were completed this week by the citizen science participants of Mark2Cure. 300 abstracts is no laughing matter...
by ginger | Nov 13, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
It’s Friday the 13th, and we have an exciting new feature to share with you! You will now be able to see the information that you’ve helped to extract for each group. When you go to your dashboard, click on any of the doc-set titles to view the doc-set’s page. You’ll...
by ginger | Oct 30, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open participation science
Our doc set on mitochondria and misfolding has reached 80% complete up from 60% complete just two weeks ago. The larger OGD and OST doc sets have also been slowly creeping upwards thanks to you! Whether you are one of the four people who completed over 30 quests in...
by ginger | Oct 16, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the last week, we’ve been user-testing some features which we hope to introduce in the future. Some of these features are still in very early stages of development, so it may be awhile before our Mark2Curators start to see them. Since some of our Mark2Curators...
by ginger | Sep 25, 2015 | citizen science, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
On Wednesday, the Mark2Cure development team met with Dr. Hudson Freeze (NGLY1 and CDG expert), Dr. Karen Ho (NGLY1.org’s scientific advisor), and the mighty Mights: Cristina and Matt Might to discuss the progress in Mark2Cure and to get feedback on how to...