Addictive online games make citizen science a hit

August 18, 2014

Addictive online games make citizen science a hit Ladan Cockshut, Durham University A few days ago, I was an astrophysicist and contributed to a research project by organising sunspot images in order of complexity. After […]

MIT Video Game Uses Crowdsourcing to Successfully Map the Brain

August 14, 2014

Join 130,000 People from 145 Countries Already Helping Neuroscience Those who think that scientists are all work and no play haven’t met MIT scientist Sebastien Seung (@SebastianSeung). In his quest to map the cells in […]

Microtask crowdsourcing for disease mention annotation in PubMed abstracts

August 5, 2014

Identifying concepts and relationships in biomedical text enables knowledge to be applied in computational analyses. Many biological natural language process (BioNLP) projects attempt to address this challenge, but the state of the art in BioNLP […]

Nanocrafter

August 3, 2014

Use pieces of DNA to build everything from computer circuits to nanoscale machine

Player: midcore
Genre: puzzle
Field: medicine
Platform: computer (browser)
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Reverse the Odds

August 3, 2014

Help scientists to learn more about cancer by analyzing real cancer data

Player: casual
Genre: analysis and puzzle
Field: medicine
Platform: Android, iOS
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