by ginger | Dec 9, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
The Might family has been an incredibly moving proponent of precision medicine, citizen science, and rare disease. Thank you for what you’ve done for Mark2Cure and the fields of health and science. We wish Bertrand and his family health, happiness, and...
by ginger | Nov 23, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, games, mark2cure
It’s still a little early, but we wanted to wish you well before the rest of your week got hectic with all the Turkey-day goodness. Since the project started, we’re grateful to have had the chance to learn and be inspired by you. For those of you who have...
by ginger | Oct 8, 2016 | collective wisdom, community intelligence, conference, Gene Wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most widely used and freely accessible knowledgebases. As one of the largest, crowdsourced resources, many researchers are engaged in making the Wikimedia platform more useful in scientific research—including researchers from our lab here at...
by ginger | Jul 29, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
By now, you’ve probably heard about the exciting discoveries coming out of the research funded by the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. We love this example of how the community came together to push science forward, and have another example we’d like to share. This example...
by ginger | Jul 15, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the last two weeks, our amazing contributors completed the galactosemia/glycosylation mission which was derived from concepts that the Mark2Cure community identified from an even earlier mission. In other words, the galactosemia/glycosylation mission was made...
by ginger | May 20, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Since our last blog post, users have completed 210 quests, submitted 1050 annotated abstracts, closed out the last of our autophagy-based missions (doc sets), and brought the first of the GlcNAC missions to near completion. The winners for our bi-weekly contribution...
