by ginger | Dec 12, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, sulab
As mentioned in Andrew’s Tedx Talk in this post, one of the grand challenges in scientific research is creating a system where all scientists can can access the knowledge embedded within the entirety of research literature. With such a system, scientists would...
by ginger | Oct 31, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, sulab
How would thorough annotations improve information extraction from biomedical research literature? To illustrate one of the issues Mark2Cure aims to address, we’ll start with an example drawn from history–the undiscovered public knowledge that an...
by ginger | Oct 24, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, sulab
Mark2Cure is a citizen science platform that enables users to make biomedical research literature more useful for scientists by annotating research abstracts. Finding the right information is a problem that’s only going to get worse unless we do something Be one...
by ginger | Aug 29, 2014 | biocuration, BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, research, sulab
The problem of keeping up with scientific literature is not new. In 1986, information scientist, Don R. Swanson, published an article about mining the wealth of knowledge buried in academic literature. In his article, “Undiscovered public knowledge”,...
by ginger | Aug 3, 2014 | conference, crowdsourcing, data mining
The deadline has been extended to Aug 4th which is tomorrow! The 2015 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing will be held from Jan 4-8 on Kohala Coast in Hawaii! Andrew and Ben (together with collaborators Robert and Zhiyong at NCBI) are organizing the session on...
