by Andrew Su | Nov 20, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, mark2cure, presentation
Earlier this year, Syd Peterson invited me to give a talk at TEDxClaremontColleges. When Syd told me that the theme was “Unexpected Narratives”, I wondered how my lab’s research could possibly fit. To me, it felt like an “eat your...
by ginger | Nov 7, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The NoB Hackathon starts at 6:00pm today! Don’t forget to register before you go: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/network-of-biothings-hackathon-tickets-14117741545 The programmer behind Mark2Cure has made incredible progress in setting up the tutorial and basic...
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 | Oct 17, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The Network of Biothings is aiming to alleviate the problem of too much information using a number of different approaches such as: Crowdsourcing Natural Language Processing Citizen science Microtask markets Professional biocuration Scientific publishing Open...
