by ginger | Oct 7, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
In Mark2Cure, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll encounter words you’ve never seen before. Often times, you can use the context to infer whether or not that term should be marked. Other times, the abstract may be just too jargon-laden or poorly written to make that...
by ginger | Sep 23, 2016 | citizen science, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
As a citizen science project, Mark2Cure has been very fortunate to recruit a number of volunpeers who have grown to become experts at the concept recognition task and provide a lot of useful feedback, comments, and suggestions. While we encourage you to explore and...
by ginger | Aug 26, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Just a quick update—a new mission has been launched. This one is centered around galactosemia and oxidative stress. Check it out today! A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to finishing the mission on stress response and muscle weakness. You can investigate the...
by ginger | Aug 12, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Shining a light on rare disease! Next week, Mark2Cure will be joining HESA online’s #dazzle4rare campaign to help raise awareness for rare diseases. Because many of our Mark2Curators have experienced the impact of a rare disease, we would like to use this opportunity...
by ginger | Jul 29, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
By now, you’ve probably heard about the exciting discoveries coming out of the research funded by the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. We love this example of how the community came together to push science forward, and have another example we’d like to share. This example...
by ginger | Jul 15, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
Over the last two weeks, our amazing contributors completed the galactosemia/glycosylation mission which was derived from concepts that the Mark2Cure community identified from an even earlier mission. In other words, the galactosemia/glycosylation mission was made...
