by ginger | Oct 30, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open participation science
Our doc set on mitochondria and misfolding has reached 80% complete up from 60% complete just two weeks ago. The larger OGD and OST doc sets have also been slowly creeping upwards thanks to you! Whether you are one of the four people who completed over 30 quests in...
by ginger | Oct 16, 2015 | citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the last week, we’ve been user-testing some features which we hope to introduce in the future. Some of these features are still in very early stages of development, so it may be awhile before our Mark2Curators start to see them. Since some of our Mark2Curators...
by ginger | Oct 9, 2015 | community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
When we first started moving Mark2Cure from Amazon Mechanical Turk to the internet at large, we decided early on that we would let the contributors take the steering wheel on the project. During beta testing, advocates from various rare disease communities (like...
by ginger | Oct 2, 2015 | collective intelligence, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
As promised in last week’s blog post, we’d like to share some of the feedback we received from our update meeting with Dr. Hudson Freeze, the Mights, and Karen Ho (NGLY1.org’s Chief Scientific Officer.) The Mark2cure development team started the meeting with a...
by ginger | Sep 25, 2015 | citizen science, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
On Wednesday, the Mark2Cure development team met with Dr. Hudson Freeze (NGLY1 and CDG expert), Dr. Karen Ho (NGLY1.org’s scientific advisor), and the mighty Mights: Cristina and Matt Might to discuss the progress in Mark2Cure and to get feedback on how to...
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...
