by ginger | Jul 14, 2017 | #citscichat, biomedical research, citizen science, mark2cure, presentation
New Mark2Cure Video added to our youtube playlist! The Citizen Science Conference in May was very productive, and the last of Mark2Cure’s recorded talks is now available on our youtube channel. As previously mentioned, Max delivered the project slam for...
by ginger | Jun 18, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, conference, mark2cure, presentation
A HUGE thanks to all the dads (and EVERYONE) who has been contributing to make a difference for the NGLY1 families. Shipping delays Apologies to international prize and drawing winners who were waiting for their prizes. Most of the international packages that we...
by ginger | May 26, 2017 | citizen science, CitSci2017, Cochrane Crowd, conference, mark2cure, MedLitBlitz, poster, presentation
The last few weeks have been a bit hectic, so we’ve got plenty of news and info to share with you. First of all, if you haven’t seen it yet, Cochrane Crowd has posted about about our joint webinar and the #MedLitBlitz. If you missed the webinar or had...
by ginger | Dec 26, 2016 | big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
I knew it! Last year, I struggled with the year-end post for the Gene Wiki/WikiData (AKA the Gene WikiData) project because the Gene WikiData team was incredibly active. I learned my lesson, and attempted to better track their activity earlier this year with a running...
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 | Jul 16, 2014 | conference, poster, presentation, publication
The 2015 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing will be held from Jan 4-8 on Kohala Coast in Hawaii! Andrew and Ben (together with collaborators Robert and Zhiyong at NCBI) are organizing the session on Crowdsourcing and Mining Crowd Data. For the session to be remotely...