by ginger | Jan 15, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
New doc set available We opened up a new doc set this morning which needs your brain power! This doc set is curated around a biological process called ‘autophagy’, and its involvement in the development of seizures. Autophagy is how cells recycle cellular...
by ginger | Dec 31, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
It’s the last day of the year and the perfect time to review the huge strides that Mark2Cure made in 2015. Around this time last year, we conducted an extremely limited beta test just to check and see if this could be done and after 3-5 people completed a set of about...
by ginger | Dec 25, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Thank you for your contributions to Mark2Cure! We’ll review the amazing things you’ve done next week. For now, we wish you and your family a happy, healthy, and very merry X-mas holiday. PS- Thank you for the awesome present—finishing the Eeyarestatin doc set...
by ginger | Dec 9, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Last Wednesday, our lead programmer (Max) was the guest speaker for the San Diego Bioinformatics User Series over at UCSD. We were thrilled to see a Mark2Curator show up for his talk (big shout out to TAdams), and understand that not everyone who wanted to attend...
by ginger | Nov 26, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you all for your contributions and feedback to Mark2Cure. Mark2Cure has changed so much since the beta experiment and it’s all thanks to you! The improvements in Mark2Cure would not have happened without your input. Our Eeyarestatin...
by ginger | Nov 20, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The O-linked Glycosylation disorders doc set contained 195 abstracts, while the first misfolded and mitochondrial doc set had 105 abstracts. BOTH doc sets were completed this week by the citizen science participants of Mark2Cure. 300 abstracts is no laughing matter...
