by Andrew Su | Dec 15, 2020 | biocuration, DrugMechDB, job
Our lab is developing DrugMechDB, a database of drug mechanisms. We are looking for one or more curators to help expand this resource with additional records. This would be a paid, remote, short-term freelance/contract role, and successful and significant...
by ginger | Aug 25, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, information extraction, mark2cure, national park services
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...
by ginger | Jun 18, 2017 | biocuration, citizen science, conference, mark2cure, presentation
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...
by ginger | Dec 26, 2016 | big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
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...
by Sebastian Burgstaller | Sep 9, 2015 | biocuration, code, community intelligence, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
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...
by ginger | Mar 6, 2015 | amt, biocuration, citizen science, collective intelligence, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
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