by ginger | Nov 4, 2014 | BioGPS, sulab
A record 99,729 queries were made to BioGPS this past October–just 271 queries shy of 100K! Curious about BioGPS users are studying? So are we! If you’ve published and article using/citing BioGPS, share your finding with BioGPS and have your work...
by bgood | Nov 4, 2014 | hackathon, sulab
As an organizer of the upcoming Network of Biothings Hackathon at UC San Diego, I’ve been asked by a number of people what a hackathon is exactly. I’m repurposing one of those responses here (original posted on the San Diego iOS developers meetup...
by ginger | Oct 31, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, sulab
How would thorough annotations improve information extraction from biomedical research literature? To illustrate one of the issues Mark2Cure aims to address, we’ll start with an example drawn from history–the undiscovered public knowledge that an...
by ginger | Oct 24, 2014 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, sulab
Mark2Cure is a citizen science platform that enables users to make biomedical research literature more useful for scientists by annotating research abstracts. Finding the right information is a problem that’s only going to get worse unless we do something Be one...
by ginger | Oct 17, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The Network of Biothings is aiming to alleviate the problem of too much information using a number of different approaches such as: Crowdsourcing Natural Language Processing Citizen science Microtask markets Professional biocuration Scientific publishing Open...
by ginger | Oct 10, 2014 | mark2cure, sulab
With Mark2Cure, YOU are the solution Join the Mark2Cure interest list and help push biomedical research forward when we launch.