by ginger | Sep 23, 2016 | citizen science, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
As a citizen science project, Mark2Cure has been very fortunate to recruit a number of volunpeers who have grown to become experts at the concept recognition task and provide a lot of useful feedback, comments, and suggestions. While we encourage you to explore and...
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 | 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 | Oct 2, 2015 | collective intelligence, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
As promised in last week’s blog post, we’d like to share some of the feedback we received from our update meeting with Dr. Hudson Freeze, the Mights, and Karen Ho (NGLY1.org’s Chief Scientific Officer.) The Mark2cure development team started the meeting with a...
by ginger | Sep 18, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Our new doc set is focused on misfolded proteins and the mitochondria. Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell and can be affected by the ER stress response. As mentioned in our Oxidative Stress doc set, ER stress can be triggered by protein misfolding and the...
by ginger | Aug 7, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Thanks to the Mark2Cure community, two doc sets have now been completed: Alacrima and Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG). The CDG doc set was large, encompassing over 480 biomedical research abstracts. We are launching another large set today on Oxidative...
