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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 […]

Crowdsourcing Malaria Parasite Quantification: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Infected Thick Blood Smears

November 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 […]

Purposeful gaming & socio-computational systems: a citizen science design case

October 27, 2012

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 […]

Gaming for (Citizen) Science

September 20, 2012

Exploring Motivation and Data Quality in the Context of Crowdsourced Science Through the Design and Evaluation of a Social-Computational System In this paper, an ongoing design research project is described. Citizen Sort, currently under development, […]

Phylo: A Citizen Science Approach for Improving Multiple Sequence Alignment

March 7, 2012

Background Comparative genomics, or the study of the relationships of genome structure and function across different species, offers a powerful tool for studying evolution, annotating genomes, and understanding the causes of various genetic disorders. However, […]

Foldit: Increased Diels-Alderase activity through backbone remodeling guided by Foldit players

January 22, 2012

Computational enzyme design holds promise for the production of renewable fuels, drugs and chemicals. De novo enzyme design has generated catalysts for several reactions, but with lower catalytic efficiencies than naturally occurring enzymes. Here we […]

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