by ginger | Jan 1, 2018 | annual summary, BD2K, BioGPS, BioThings, mark2cure, Su lab, sulab, tsri
Rather than summarize the 2017 progress on in each project in separate, project-specific posts, I’m putting it all in once post this year for one important reason–recruitment! As with any academic research group, we expect to see a number of our talented...
by bgood | Jun 16, 2017 | games, genegames, gwaps, Science Game Lab, SGL, sulab
Scripps team: Benjamin M. Good, Ginger Tsueng, Andrew I SuPlaymatics Team: Sarah Santini, Margaret Wallace, Nicholas Fortugno, John Szeder, Patrick Mooney, With helpful ideas from: Jerome Waldispuhl, Melanie StegmanAbstractGames with a purpose and other...
by bgood | Jun 16, 2017 | crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, semantic wikipedia, sulab, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
As the Wikimedia Movement works to define its strategy for the next fifteen years, it is worthwhile to consider how its recent product Wikidata may fit into that strategy. As its homepage states, “Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and...
by ginger | Dec 9, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Last Wednesday, our lead programmer (Max) was the guest speaker for the San Diego Bioinformatics User Series over at UCSD. We were thrilled to see a Mark2Curator show up for his talk (big shout out to TAdams), and understand that not everyone who wanted to attend...
by ginger | Nov 26, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you all for your contributions and feedback to Mark2Cure. Mark2Cure has changed so much since the beta experiment and it’s all thanks to you! The improvements in Mark2Cure would not have happened without your input. Our Eeyarestatin...
by ginger | Nov 20, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The O-linked Glycosylation disorders doc set contained 195 abstracts, while the first misfolded and mitochondrial doc set had 105 abstracts. BOTH doc sets were completed this week by the citizen science participants of Mark2Cure. 300 abstracts is no laughing matter...
