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 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 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. […]
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 […]
What is a connectome, and why does it matter? Look inside the mind with Sebastian Seung in this Q&A, originally published in Time. Sebastian Seung is a multi-disciplinary expert whose research efforts have spanned the […]
Citizen science is a form of social computation where members of the public are recruited to contribute to scientific investigations. Citizen-science projects often use web-based systems to support collaborative scientific activities, making them a form […]
Citizen Science Games 2019