Computer gamers solve medical problems

December 9, 2016

As a core area of molecular biology, the study of protein structure is integral to elucidating pathological processes. Protein structure prediction has become one of the most important goals of pharmaceutical and biochemical industries. With […]

Stall Catchers – The Crowd: our newest weapon in the fight against Alzheimer’s

November 15, 2016

The Crowd: our newest weapon in the fight against Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s research breakthroughs cannot come fast enough, which is why we need approaches that break the rules and find new proactive ways to fight the […]

How should citizen science be published? A debate at Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2014

February 19, 2014

Citizen science – the public participation in gathering data for scientific studies – is certainly not new, but facilitated by the ease of sharing information online, the opportunities for the public to engage in scientific […]

Hope springs Eterna? Citizen science comes to BMC Biochemistry

October 24, 2013

What can the general public contribute to scientific research? Quite a lot as it turns out… Imagine how many hours are spent worldwide every day playing Bejeweled, or Angry Birds, or Candy Crush. We’d hesitate […]

Power to the people: Does Eterna signal the arrival of a new wave of crowd-sourced projects?

October 23, 2013

This editorial was written by Thomas A Rowles for BMC Biochemistry – See page 4 for more details http://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2091-14-26 Introduction What constitutes a scientist, and do you have to be a professional researcher to perform […]

Open-Phylo: give science back to the people

October 23, 2013

It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, […]