by Sebastian Burgstaller | Sep 9, 2015 | biocuration, code, community intelligence, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Introduction: Sulab has proven it’s love for Wikipedia by creating the GeneWiki[1]. Wikipedia is primarily a collection of free-text pages which also can contain some structured data in the form of infoboxes. In order to increase the abilities of handling and...
by ginger | Aug 6, 2015 | code, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, microtask
Similar to how Amazon Mechanical Turk was used to help us learn about concept recognition in the context of crowdsourcing, our lab has been utilizing the CrowdFlower platform to learn about relationship extraction. Unfortunately, we found a small subset of task...
by bgood | Oct 6, 2014 | code, hackathon, network, network of biothings, sulab
Can you code? Are you interested in the intersection of computer science and biology (bioinformatics) ? Do you want to meet interesting people? Are you excited about building new pieces of software that could change the face science and medicine? Do you want to win a...
by Andrew Su | May 29, 2014 | code, GO, long tail
Recently, someone emailed me to ask how I got the data behind this figure that I often use in the introductions of my talks: This figure shows that while there are few genes that are very well annotated (100s of GO annotations manually annotated by biocurators), that...
