by ginger | Oct 10, 2014 | mark2cure, sulab
With Mark2Cure, YOU are the solution Join the Mark2Cure interest list and help push biomedical research forward when we launch.
by ginger | Oct 3, 2014 | mark2cure, sulab
Mark2Cure is a citizen science tool that empowers anyone who can read to make biomedical research literature more useful for researchers. Mark2Cure citizen scientists improve their ability to read and understand biomedical research abstracts while enabling researchers...
by ginger | Sep 26, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
We’ve posted a lot about the growing amount complex biomedical research and omics data that needs to be organized, integrated, and analyzed in order to be effectively applied. Similar issues apply to the growing volume of growing volume of biomedical research...
by ginger | Sep 19, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
In order to make the ever-growing body of biomedical research literature more useful for EVERYONE, the Su Lab at The Scripps Research Institute has been working on a citizen science-based approach to annotate biomedical research abstracts. The idea is that Mark2Cure...
by ginger | Sep 12, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, research, sulab
In case you missed why Open Access is awesome, the lack of open access is only one of many barriers that discourage the dissemination of scientific information to the public. Fortunately, more researchers are publishing in Open Access journals or with Open Access...
by ginger | Sep 5, 2014 | crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Yesterday, an article by @CoopSciScoop made rounds in twitter that highlighted a key problem researchers face in their line of work–the difficulty of finding relevant research in a growing body of literature. Specifically, the authors of this fine paper...