by ginger | Jan 22, 2016 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open science
If it hasn’t been evident enough from the Gene Wiki activity, or BioGPS’s community expandable resources (plugins), or our citizen science initiative, Mark2Cure, we’re very enthusiastic about crowdsourcing and community-based resources here in the Su...
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 | Jan 22, 2015 | Gene Wiki, open science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia
Wikipedia is probably the most current, extensive, and accessible knowledge base available. Currently, there are over 10,000 Wikipedia entries for human genes of interest thanks to the Gene Wiki project and the contributions of the dedicated and altruistic Wikipedia...
by ginger | Oct 1, 2014 | BioGPS, bioinformatics, Featured Article Series, open science
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas–all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions...
by ginger | Aug 6, 2014 | crowdsourcing, GENE journal, Gene Wiki, open science, publications, review articles, sulab, wiki
Did you know you can update your favorite gene on Wikipedia and get a review article published while you’re at it? Here’s what you need to know about the GENE/Gene Wiki partnership: What is it? The goal of the Gene Wiki is to create a comprehensive...
