The Cure at Salk Cancer Day Symposium

Posted by on Apr 21, 2014 in breast cancer, conference, decision-trees, games, genegames, gwaps, poster, sulab, thecure | 0 comments Karthik G. and I will be presenting a poster tomorrow at the Salk Institute's Cancer Day Symposium.  We will be presenting data from a year with the scientific discovery game The Cure.  You can read more about those results on the arXiv.If you are coming, please stop by for a chat!  We would especially love the chance to discuss the new, collaborative decision tree-building interface that...
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The Cure at Salk Cancer Day Symposium

Posted by on Apr 21, 2014 in breast cancer, conference, decision-trees, games, genegames, gwaps, poster, sulab, thecure | 0 comments Karthik G. and I will be presenting a poster tomorrow at the Salk Institute's Cancer Day Symposium.  We will be presenting data from a year with the scientific discovery game The Cure.  You can read more about those results on the arXiv.If you are coming, please stop by for a chat!  We would especially love the chance to discuss the new, collaborative decision tree-building interface that...
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NIH Grant proposal for sale!

Posted by on Mar 21, 2014 in breast cancer, crowdsourcing, games, genegames, grant, gwaps, machine learning, NIH, r21, sulab, thecure | 1 comment Last November, Andrew and I submitted an R21 proposal for consideration by the NIH.  Today, we received the summary statement.  Since a lot of work went into writing it, I feel compelled to share it regardless of whether its ever funded (which currently seems like a longshot, but you never know).   Perhaps someone will find a useful idea in there and the world will somehow be better for the work...
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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 possible to...
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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.  Its you versus...
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