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 | May 15, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open participation science, sulab
On Tuesday (just three days ago) we invited everyone on the Mark2Cure mailing list to jump in and try the new Mark2Cure campaign. In just one day, the first quest was completed. We’ve had a bit of a rough start with the spam filter blocking the majority of the...
by Andrew Su | Apr 15, 2015 | BioGPS, citizen science, Gene Wiki, jobs, mark2cure, open participation science, open science, recruiting
If you follow our lab at all you’ve probably noticed some themes emerging in how we approach bioinformatics and biomedical research. To enumerate a few of those themes, we believe in: Open source: We have benefited from the long tradition of open source software...
by ginger | Feb 3, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open participation science, press
The San Diego Union Tribune did a nice little article on Mark2Cure, which helped us reach a lot of local citizen scientist volunteers. If you missed the article, you can read it here. If you joined Mark2Cure because of the UT San Diego, THANK YOU, and please help...
by ginger | Jun 25, 2014 | BioThings, open participation science, prize, Science contest, starving student, sulab
One would think that a $500 prize would be sufficient to motivate a cash-strapped researcher, or a starving scientist-in-training student to put together an entry for the Network of Biothings Driving Biological Projects contest. Heck, since the contest is open to...
