by bgood | Jun 18, 2012 | games, grant, gwaps, NIH, sulab
Dear Internet,A penny for your thoughts on the grant proposal accessible here. If you were on the committee that decided the fate of this proposal (and in a very real way, its authors), what would you say? Go jump in a lake? This is fantastic?...
by bgood | Apr 25, 2012 | games, Gene Wiki, genewiki+, presentation, san diego, sulab
Last Friday I had the honor of speaking at the Salk Institute ‘Systems to Synthesis’ Symposium. I introduced the idea of games with a biological purpose, showed off our early results with Dizeez and plugged some of the prototypes appearing at...
by bgood | Apr 23, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, semantic web, SPARQL, sulab
Thanks to Leyla and Alex Garcia-Castro from UniProt and Florida State University respectively, we now have access to a SPARQL endpoint for the data in the Gene Wiki. Access it live here:http://virtuoso.idiginfo.org/sparql(update on 4-28-12 , that is down and a...
by bgood | Apr 6, 2012 | class prediction, classification, crowdsourcing, games, gwaps, hgf, machine learning, random forest, sulab
Yesterday I posted some slides about an idea I had recently which I call Human Guided Forests or HGF for short. This an attempt to marry crowdsourcing with machine learning to produce better class predictors for datasets with very large features spaces....
by bgood | Mar 22, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, semantic links, semantic web, semantic wikipedia, sulab, SWL, wiki
A while back, I posted an entry here called “Stepping towards a Semantic Wikipedia” that quickly became the most-visited post on this blog. Today, after several months of waiting, I discovered by accident that the official peer-reviewed article on...
by bgood | Mar 8, 2012 | games, hgf, sulab, web development
After years of talking about games for science, I’m finally going to jump in and make one. I’ve got an idea (which I will elaborate on soon) and now I’m trying to figure out how to go about implementing it. The challenge right now is to...
