by ginger | Feb 6, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Our beta experiment is now 28% complete thanks to all of you. If you haven’t joined the beta experiment, please join now! We could really use your help to finish this experiment. If you’re hesitant because you don’t have a science background, take...
by Andrew Su | Dec 4, 2013 | bio-ontologies, bioinformatics, BioThings, breast cancer, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, games, grant, mass collaboration, semantic web
I offer an idea, and a proposal… What: We want to structure biological knowledge by annotating BioThings (genes, proteins, mutations, diseases, and drugs) in biomedical research articles. We want to comprehensively annotate the mentions of these BioThings in...
by Andrew Su | Jun 8, 2013 | collective intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, database, genomics, wiki, wikipedia
Model organism databases are great. They span a spectrum of model organisms as diverse as mouse, rat, fly, worm, zebrafish, yeast, and E. coli. And they fulfill key roles for their respective communities, from warehousing key genomic data, to providing query and...
by ACarolino | Aug 9, 2012 | community-annotation, database, gene ontology, genome biology, GO, long tail
This guest post was written by Adriel Carolino, a summer intern who has been spearheading this project to create a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD). The recent explosion of metagenomic sequencing has resulted in an immense expanse of microbial genetic...
by bgood | Jan 24, 2012 | bioinformatics, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, ISMB, ISMB2012, mass collaboration, special-session, sulab
Looking for something to do in Long Beach, California on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 17, 2012 ? Stop by the special session on Community Intelligence in Bioinformatics at this year’s conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB)!We have...