Information extraction and the missing Mark2Cure module

Posted by on Aug 25, 2017 in biocuration, citizen science, information extraction, mark2cure, national park services | 0 comments In our previous post, we asked readers, 'What is your preferred moniker?'. Here is the response: Mark2Curator: 36% Citizen Scientist: 36% Contributor: 18% "Anything BUT volunpeer": 10% Although it may seem a little strange that researchers have been struggling to find an answer to the "What's in a name?" issue for discussing citizen science, this struggle is a deeply representative of some of...
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Happy Fathers Day!

Posted by on Jun 18, 2017 in biocuration, citizen science, conference, mark2cure, presentation | 0 comments A HUGE thanks to all the dads (and EVERYONE) who has been contributing to make a difference for the NGLY1 families. Shipping delays Apologies to international prize and drawing winners who were waiting for their prizes. Most of the international packages that we shipped out in May/June have been returned to us due to customs issues (fortunately, this happened at some point prior to shipping so...
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2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData

Posted by on Dec 26, 2016 in big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia | 0 comments I knew it! Last year, I struggled with the year-end post for the Gene Wiki/WikiData (AKA the Gene WikiData) project because the Gene WikiData team was incredibly active. I learned my lesson, and attempted to better track their activity earlier this year with a running tally. Still, the Gene WikiData team was so productive, I still had trouble keeping up with everything they did! They’ve...
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A simple way to write Wikidata bots

Posted by on Sep 9, 2015 in biocuration, code, community intelligence, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia | 0 comments Introduction: Sulab has proven it’s love for Wikipedia by creating the GeneWiki[1]. Wikipedia is primarily a collection of free-text pages which also can contain some structured data in the form of infoboxes. In order to increase the abilities of handling and representing structured data in the MediaWiki universe, Wikidata was conceived and finally rolled out to the community in late 2012....
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Mark2Cure presentation at FOGM15

Posted by on Mar 6, 2015 in amt, biocuration, citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure | 0 comments [View the story “Researchers amazed by citizen scientists in biocuration effort” on...
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Finding buried treasure in shifting sand

Posted by on Aug 29, 2014 in biocuration, BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, research, sulab | 0 comments 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”, Swanson investigated information that was not readily available simply because individual biomedical research papers were (and in many ways still...
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