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 21, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Last week, Mark2Curators completed the FBX-Engase doc set which was roughly 30% the size of the Alacrima doc set. Forty-five Mark2Curators made submitted 11,177 annotations in 767 separate contributions as seen below: Six users completed almost every doc in the...
by ginger | Aug 14, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
With the newest doc set on oxidative stress launched just last week, the Mark2Cure community wrapped up the FBX2-Engase doc set up this week. This set may be done, but our newest set is huge! Help mark it! In this doc set, 6 users completed almost every doc available...
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...
by ginger | Aug 6, 2015 | code, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, microtask
Similar to how Amazon Mechanical Turk was used to help us learn about concept recognition in the context of crowdsourcing, our lab has been utilizing the CrowdFlower platform to learn about relationship extraction. Unfortunately, we found a small subset of task...
by ginger | Jul 31, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Composed of ~483 abstracts, the CDG doc set was one of the largest sets in Mark2Cure’s Campaign for NGLY1. This set was completed sometime on Tuesday night (07/28) and is the second doc set to be completed by the Mark2Cure community (the first one being the...
