by bgood | Mar 7, 2012 | Gene Wiki, hassan, interview, r4d, sulab
A few days ago, Hassan Masum of the Results for Development Institute, asked me some questions about the Gene Wiki as a platform for collaboration and discovery in the health sciences. The results of the interview were posted today on their blog as the first...
by bgood | Jan 24, 2012 | bioinformatics, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, ISMB, ISMB2012, mass collaboration, special-session, sulab
Looking for something to do in Long Beach, California on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 17, 2012 ? Stop by the special session on Community Intelligence in Bioinformatics at this year’s conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB)!We have...
by bgood | Jan 2, 2012 | foldit, games, genome biology, gwaps, publication, sulab
Happy New year everyone! In case you are looking for some inspirational reading to start off 2012, Andrew and I wrote a Research Highlight for Genome Biology on Games With a Scientific Purpose. Kudos to Andrew for convincing them to make it open access so you...
by bgood | Dec 22, 2011 | Gene Wiki, NAR, sulab
The Gene Wiki Rainbow just got a little bit more famous. Check it out on the cover of the 2012 Nucleic Acids Database issue. Thanks again Martin K.!The Gene Wiki on the cover of NAR
by bgood | Dec 15, 2011 | disease ontology, gene ontology, Gene Wiki, genomics, publication, sulab, text-mining
Our article about mining ontology-based gene annotations from the text of the Gene Wiki just came out at BMC Genomics. Yay!In the article, we discuss the results of what I think might be the simplest text-mining strategy that could possibly work. Based on...
by bgood | Nov 18, 2011 | book, games, gwaps, quotes, sulab
I’m currently supposed to be writing an article about scientific discovery games in biology, but I have writer’s block. So instead, I’m writing here.. which is much easier! The article I am not currently writing will discuss recent...
