by Andrew Su | Nov 20, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, mark2cure, presentation
Earlier this year, Syd Peterson invited me to give a talk at TEDxClaremontColleges. When Syd told me that the theme was “Unexpected Narratives”, I wondered how my lab’s research could possibly fit. To me, it felt like an “eat your...
by ginger | Nov 7, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The NoB Hackathon starts at 6:00pm today! Don’t forget to register before you go: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/network-of-biothings-hackathon-tickets-14117741545 The programmer behind Mark2Cure has made incredible progress in setting up the tutorial and basic...
by ginger | Oct 17, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
The Network of Biothings is aiming to alleviate the problem of too much information using a number of different approaches such as: Crowdsourcing Natural Language Processing Citizen science Microtask markets Professional biocuration Scientific publishing Open...
by ginger | Sep 26, 2014 | BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, sulab
We’ve posted a lot about the growing amount complex biomedical research and omics data that needs to be organized, integrated, and analyzed in order to be effectively applied. Similar issues apply to the growing volume of growing volume of biomedical research...
by ginger | Aug 29, 2014 | biocuration, BioThings, citizen science, crowdsourcing, data mining, mark2cure, research, sulab
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”,...
by ginger | Aug 1, 2014 | BioThings, driving biological project
In order to find a Driving Biological Project which would help propel the Network of BioThings forward, the Su lab had a contest with a $500 prize which ended on June 30th. The contest entries were judged by Drs. Su, Dumontier, Evelo, and Bader. Although each of the...
