ArticleGenome biology2013
Open-Phylo: a customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment.
Article in Genome biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Creating custom Foldit puzzles for teaching biochemistry.Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2019Article
- Ten simple rules to create a serious game, illustrated with examples from structural biology.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Games that Enlist Collective Intelligence to Solve Complex Scientific Problems.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2016Article
- Citizen Science Initiatives: Engaging the Public and Demystifying Science.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2016Article
- Crowd science user contribution patterns and their implications.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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Abstract
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 be analyzed through these games is under the exclusive control of the game designers, and so are the results produced by gamers. Here, we introduce Open-Phylo, a freely accessible crowd-computing platform that enables any scientist to enter our system and use crowds of gamers to assist computer programs in solving one of the most fundamental problems in genomics: the multiple sequence alignment problem.
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