Easily Solved by Humans: An Interview with Phylo Co-Creator Jérôme Waldispühl

August 19, 2013

Several months ago I started playing an online game called Phylo. It is both simple and challenging, and I can feel virtuous as I play, since (according to its website) the gameplay is helping scientists […]

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. […]