by bgood | Feb 20, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
March 13, 2013 I wrote up an idea in my notebook that I called ‘Pubmed Daily’. The concept was to build a system that would leverage large-scale crowdsourcing/citizen science and machine learning to produce a high-quality, structured representation...
by ginger | Feb 13, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
Because of the amazing ways in which our Mark2Curators have contributed, we’re now approaching the end of the beta experiment. Since our last post on Tuesday, we’ve gone from 56% completion to ~80% completion of the beta experiment. THANK YOU,...
by ginger | Jan 27, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
I used SavingCase’s tweet because it highlights how important the internet has become for connecting people and how people share information. (I might have missed Susannah’s piece if not for that tweet.) That patient-patient connection is number three in a...
by ginger | Jan 22, 2015 | Gene Wiki, open science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia
Wikipedia is probably the most current, extensive, and accessible knowledge base available. Currently, there are over 10,000 Wikipedia entries for human genes of interest thanks to the Gene Wiki project and the contributions of the dedicated and altruistic Wikipedia...
by ginger | Jan 16, 2015 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The results from Mark2Cure’s limited holiday test were promising. Special thanks to all the participants! Mark2Cure is now gearing up for its 1st major experiment to demonstrate that citizen scientists (like yourself) CAN and WILL use Mark2Cure to help...
by ginger | Dec 31, 2014 | BioGPS, Featured Article Series, GeneOfTheWeek, plugin, sulab
This year, BioGPS has received 40K more queries than last year, and that’s not even counting this month’s queries!* According to google scholar, the BioGPS paper has been cited 586 of which 143 were publications in 2014. Publications about the default data...
