Gene-disease annotation with Mobianga

Posted by on Nov 2, 2012 in ASHG, conference, games, genegames, gwaps, mobianga, student, sulab | 0 comments Over the summer, an enterprising high school student named Nishant Mandapaty approached our research group about doing a project with us.  He found us through the "Crowdsourcing Biology" group that we created for the Google Summer of Code program.  To make a long story short, he has been doing good work for us ever since, quickly learning what he needs to on his own. His primary...
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Results from the Cancer Biology game: The Cure

Posted by on Oct 29, 2012 in breast cancer, feature selection, games, genegames, gwaps, machine learning, sage, sulab, thecure | 0 comments Building intelligent systems for biologyOur research group has been exploring the concept of serious games for several months now.  Aside from providing nerdy entertainment, our games collect (and distribute) biological knowledge from broad audiences of players.  The hypothesis underlying this work is that, by capturing knowledge in forms suitable for computation, these games make it...
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The Cure Round 2 underway

Posted by on Oct 3, 2012 in breast cancer, cancer, games, genegames, gwaps, sulab | 0 comments Come see a fresh new interface and a more challenging set of boards in round 2 of The Cure!http://genegames.org/cure/Will Barney defeat us?  Only you can stop him!The SAGE challenge finishes in two weeks and we need you to play to show what The Cure can do!Play...
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The Cure: Play Games, Defeat Cancer

Posted by on Sep 7, 2012 in cancer, games, genegames, machine learning, sulab, thecure | 0 comments Today we released a new game on genegames.org called The Cure.  The driving biological problem is to identify gene sets that can be used to build better predictors of breast cancer prognosis.  Specifically we are looking for genes that can be used to predict survival as described in the ongoing SAGE DREAM7 challenge.  The game is a simple (but very difficult), 2-player card game....
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abstract for genegames.org

Posted by on Jul 31, 2012 in abstract, combo, games, genesp, sulab | 0 comments I wrote this poster abstract up for an upcoming conference and thought it might be useful to share it here.  If it gets accepted, you can come see me (and my iPad stand) in person at USCD in September.  If not, well, you can read it here, play the games over there, and see me virtually anywhere.genegames.org: High-throughput access to biological knowledge and reasoning through online...
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Grant Proposal for your Review

Posted by on Jun 18, 2012 in games, grant, gwaps, NIH, sulab | 0 comments Dear Internet,A penny for your thoughts on the grant proposal accessible here.  If you were on the committee that decided the fate of this proposal (and in a very real way, its authors), what would you say?  Go jump in a lake?  This is fantastic?  Why?In a nutshell, we* propose to build some serious games that will translate key biological data curation and interpretation...
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