by bgood | Apr 21, 2014 | breast cancer, conference, decision-trees, games, genegames, gwaps, poster, sulab, thecure
Karthik G. and I will be presenting a poster tomorrow at the Salk Institute’s Cancer Day Symposium. We will be presenting data from a year with the scientific discovery game The Cure. You can read more about those results on the arXiv.If you are...
by Andrew Su | Apr 15, 2014 | BioGPS, crowdsourcing, games, Gene Wiki, jobs, recruiting
In addition to recruiting for new postdoctoral associates, my group also just posted an ad for a Scientific Outreach Program Manager. What exactly is a Scientific Outreach Program Manager? In truth, we’re not completely sure. What we do know is that our lab...
by bgood | Mar 21, 2014 | breast cancer, crowdsourcing, games, genegames, grant, gwaps, machine learning, NIH, r21, sulab, thecure
Last November, Andrew and I submitted an R21 proposal for consideration by the NIH. Today, we received the summary statement. Since a lot of work went into writing it, I feel compelled to share it regardless of whether its ever funded (which currently...
by Andrew Su | Dec 4, 2013 | bio-ontologies, bioinformatics, BioThings, breast cancer, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, games, grant, mass collaboration, semantic web
I offer an idea, and a proposal… What: We want to structure biological knowledge by annotating BioThings (genes, proteins, mutations, diseases, and drugs) in biomedical research articles. We want to comprehensively annotate the mentions of these BioThings in...
by bgood | Nov 2, 2012 | ASHG, conference, games, genegames, gwaps, mobianga, student, sulab
Over the summer, an enterprising high school student named Nishant Mandapaty approached our research group about doing a project with us. He found us through the “Crowdsourcing Biology” group that we created for the Google Summer of Code program....
by bgood | Oct 29, 2012 | breast cancer, feature selection, games, genegames, gwaps, machine learning, sage, sulab, thecure
Building intelligent systems for biologyOur research group has been exploring the concept of serious games for several months now. Aside from providing nerdy entertainment, our games collect (and distribute) biological knowledge from broad audiences of players....
