ISMB 2012 recap

Posted by on Jul 23, 2012 in bio-ontologies, BioGPS, community intelligence, Gene Wiki, ISMB2012 | 0 comments (In addition to Ben’s recap posted on Friday…) Several members of the lab returned last week from a fantastic ISMB 2012 conference July 13-17. As always, the science was fantastic, as was the networking with colleagues and collaborators. The Su Lab was also well-represented in the conference program. Ben Good organized a Special Session on Harnessing community intelligence for...
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Dizeez @ Future of Genetic Medicine V

Posted by on Mar 13, 2012 in community intelligence, dizeez, games | 0 comments Recently, we have added several new features to the Dizeez game (previously described here). In particular, the game now allows players to select a specific area of biology (for example, by disease or protein family) that best matches their expertise. Also, a “recap” functionality has been added at the end of the game, that shows supporting evidence (in Gene Wiki and PubMed...
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Community Intelligence session at ISMB 2012

Posted by on Jan 24, 2012 in bioinformatics, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, ISMB, ISMB2012, mass collaboration, special-session, sulab | 0 comments 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 four distinguished speakers lined up:Alex Bateman will discuss the use of Wikipedia in RFAM, PFAM and the rest of science.Alex Pico will...
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Dizeez to novel gene annotations

Posted by on Nov 18, 2011 in community intelligence, dizeez, games | 0 comments We’ve been hard at work mining the logs for the Dizeez game (see past posts for context). To summarize the take home message, the Dizeez game resulted in the identification of several novel gene-disease annotations. We used a psuedo-gold standard set of 3439 candidate gene-disease links that were mined from the Gene Wiki as the input data set for the Dizeez game. The game randomly selects...
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Learning from the "Dizeez" game

Posted by on Nov 11, 2011 in community intelligence, dizeez, games | 0 comments We recently released a game called Dizeez that tests your knowledge of gene-disease links. (Haven’t seen it yet? Play here.) Now that it’s been live for a couple of weeks, we’ve had a chance to look at the game logs and make a few observations: Dizeez was played to completion over 300 times by over 100 unique players At least two people found the game to be...
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Twenty questions for genes — try it out

Posted by on Sep 23, 2011 in community intelligence, games, GO, long tail | 0 comments Part 1: Introduction to the concept Part 2: The prototype game (this post) Part 3: Evaluation framework We recently posted on this blog the idea of creating a computer engine to play the game 20 questions. But instead of asking users to thing of common objects in the world, we’d ask people to think of their favorite gene. Well, I took advantage of a recent long weekend to throw together a...
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