MalariaSpot: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Infected Thick Blood Smears

December 29, 2012

Background: There are 600,000 new malaria cases daily worldwide. The gold standard for estimating the parasite burden and the corresponding severity of the disease consists in manually counting the number of parasites in blood smears […]

Play a game to help figure out how the eye works

December 10, 2012

Play a game to help figure out how the eye works Who says staring at a computer screen isn’t good for your eyes? Well, okay, in the short term, too much screen time isn’t good, […]

Skip FarmVille: play Phylo instead

December 10, 2012

Skip FarmVille: play Phylo instead Phylo is a nifty Flash-based game designed to help researchers figure out multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). MSAs are ways of aligning DNA or RNA to discover areas that are similar. […]