by ginger | Mar 21, 2016 | BioGPS, crowdsourcing, plugin
BioGPS is gearing up for a major redesign! We’ve already started consolidating our seldom-used mailing lists and will be putting more effort to keeping our users informed of the many changes that are coming to BioGPS. To celebrate the upcoming site overhaul,...
by ginger | Mar 11, 2016 | citizen science, community intelligence, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
A lot has happened since our last Mark2Cure blog post. Andrew and other members of the Mark2Cure team were on twitter on Feb. 24th to talk about Mark2Cure during the citscichat focused on language-based citizen science projects. A storify of the event can be found...
by ginger | Mar 11, 2016 | citizen science, conference, crowdsourcing, mark2cure
(Updated 2016.04.08) We’ve been working with the La Jolla Public Library to commemorate the inaugural Citizen Science Day in the US. There will be a small Citizen Science Day Expo in San Diego which will showcase some of the many local citizen science projects that...
by Jacob Bruggemann | Mar 2, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, newrelease, zooniverse
We have previously mentioned our citizen science effort to identify biomedical concepts in text, Mark2Cure. However, there are tasks aside from text annotation that can overwhelm scientists. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM for short) is an increasingly popular...
by ginger | Jan 29, 2016 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, games, mark2cure
We couldn’t have done it without our Mark2Curators, so of course we’ve made the preprint of the manuscript freely available. The link in the acknowledgment section might not be live yet, as we’re still collecting ‘opt-in’ preferences from our users. If...
by ginger | Jan 22, 2016 | citizen science, collective intelligence, collective wisdom, community intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, mark2cure, open science
If it hasn’t been evident enough from the Gene Wiki activity, or BioGPS’s community expandable resources (plugins), or our citizen science initiative, Mark2Cure, we’re very enthusiastic about crowdsourcing and community-based resources here in the Su...
