by Andrew Su | Apr 13, 2015 | crowdsourcing, topcoder
Crowdsourcing is clearly a theme in our lab, but one flavor of crowdsourcing that we hadn’t experimented with extensively is the use of prize-based contests. Sites like TopCoder, Innocentive, and Kaggle have shown that contests can be a successful mechanism for...
by ginger | Mar 27, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, Su lab, sulab
NGLY1 is the gene encoding for Peptide-N(4)-(N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl)asparagine amidase (PNGase) AKA N-glycanase 1. A deficiency in this enzyme can disrupt protein quality control mechanisms in the cell, which as we’ve seen in the BioGPS Gene-of-the-week on...
by ginger | Mar 20, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Max is nearly done programming all the required training modules, which we’ll be testing out ASAP. (Hurray, I get to meet more awesome Mark2Curators!) We are aiming to launch the campaign for NGLY1 some time in April (it’s not set in stone, so fingers...
by ginger | Mar 13, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
As Andrew previously alluded, Mark2Curators will be marking genes and drugs in addition to diseases in the next campaign for NLGY1. This has created all sorts of challenges which we’ve needed to address (actually, Max already incorporated the ability to do...
by ginger | Mar 6, 2015 | amt, biocuration, citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
[View the story “Researchers amazed by citizen scientists in biocuration effort” on Storify]
by bgood | Mar 4, 2015 | banner, crowdsourcing, nlp, sulab, topcoder
There is a TopCoder contest running right now that involves machine learning, crowdsourced data, and natural language processing. There is $41,000 up for grabs! It will be distributed in many smaller prizes so there are plenty of opportunities to win...
