Online citizen science games: opportunities for the biological sciences

December 1, 2014

Recent developments in digital technologies and the rise of the internet have created new opportunities for citizen science. One of these has been the development of online citizen science games where complex research problems have […]

Open-Phylo: a customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment

December 10, 2013

Citizen science games such as Galaxy Zoo, Foldit, and Phylo aim to harness the intelligence and processing power generated by crowds of online gamers to solve scientific problems. However, the selection of the data to […]

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, […]