by ginger | Sep 5, 2014 | crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Yesterday, an article by @CoopSciScoop made rounds in twitter that highlighted a key problem researchers face in their line of work–the difficulty of finding relevant research in a growing body of literature. Specifically, the authors of this fine paper...
by ginger | Sep 4, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, science, sulab, Thursday Science
In case you missed it, Caren Cooper et al. just published a fascinating research article on PLOS One (it’s open access, so check it out!) detailing her investigations on the contributions of citizen scientists in ornithological (bird) research. In this article...
by ginger | Aug 29, 2014 | biocuration, BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, research, sulab
The problem of keeping up with scientific literature is not new. In 1986, information scientist, Don R. Swanson, published an article about mining the wealth of knowledge buried in academic literature. In his article, “Undiscovered public knowledge”,...
by ginger | Aug 27, 2014 | bioinformatics, Omics Pipe, Personalized Medicine, pipelines, python, sulab
As mentioned on Monday, the researchers at the Su lab have been working diligently on a paper to introduce their new computational framework for reproducible multi-omics data analysis. Advancements in sequencing technologies have made sequencing cheaper and more...
by ginger | Aug 22, 2014 | sulab, work
The new genius who was here before, but not was not mentioned when I first joined the lab because this genius was not (as far as I knew) actually a part of the lab…yet. Sure, his name floated around in the Su Lab chat channels, but he was not physcially present...
by ginger | Aug 15, 2014 | Dizeez. GenESP, NAGA, Network-Augmented Genomic Analysis, Su lab members, sulab, The Cure, work
Sal the professional…the professional integrated systems biology researcher It’s easy to get the wrong impression of the Tough-looking, badass genius, and much harder to accurately portray him. Sure, the Tough-looking, badass genius bears an uncanny...
