Crowdsourcing for bioinformatics

Prize-based contests can provide solutions to computational biology problems

(2013) Karim R Lakhani et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Progress in Ion Torrent semiconductor chip based sequencing

(2012) Barry Merriman et al.   ELECTROPHORESIS

Internet-based crowdsourcing and research ethics: the case for IRB review

(2012) Mark A Graber et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

Crowdsourced Health Research Studies: An Important Emerging Complement to Clinical Trials in the Public Health Research Ecosystem

(2012) Melanie Swan   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

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

(2012) Miguel Angel Luengo-Oroz et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Knowledge Acquisition for Medical Diagnosis Using Collective Intelligence

(2012) G. Hernández-Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Development and evaluation of a crowdsourcing methodology for knowledge base construction: identifying relationships between clinical problems and medications

(2012) Allison B McCoy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION

Crowd-sourced BioGames: managing the big data problem for next-generation lab-on-a-chip platforms

(2012) Sam Mavandadi et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

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

(2012) Christopher B Eiben et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Wisdom of crowds for robust gene network inference

(2012) Daniel Marbach et al.   NATURE METHODS

Phylo: A Citizen Science Approach for Improving Multiple Sequence Alignment

(2012) Alexander Kawrykow et al.   PLoS One

Distributed Medical Image Analysis and Diagnosis through Crowd-Sourced Games: A Malaria Case Study

(2012) Sam Mavandadi et al.   PLoS One

Distributed Human Intelligence for Colonic Polyp Classification in Computer-aided Detection for CT Colonography

(2012) Tan B. Nguyen et al.   RADIOLOGY

Raising money for scientific research through crowdfunding

(2012) Rachel E. Wheat et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microbial virus genome annotation—Mustering the troops to fight the sequence onslaught

(2012) J. Rodney Brister et al.   VIROLOGY

Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine?

(2011) Karën Fort et al.   COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

The power of many

(2011) Clare Sansom   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players

(2011) Firas Khatib et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The 2012 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and the online Molecular Biology Database Collection

(2011) M. Y. Galperin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Efficient Replication of over 180 Genetic Associations with Self-Reported Medical Data

(2011) Joyce Y. Tung et al.   PLoS One

Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players

(2011) F. Khatib et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Galaxy Zoo Volunteers Share Pain and Glory of Research

(2011) D. Clery   SCIENCE

Web-Based Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Two Novel Loci and a Substantial Genetic Component for Parkinson's Disease

(2011) Chuong B. Do et al.   PLoS Genetics

Games with a scientific purpose

(2011) Benjamin M Good et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game

(2010) Seth Cooper et al.   NATURE

Citizen Science: Can Volunteers Do Real Research?

(2008) Jeffrey P. Cohn   BIOSCIENCE

Galaxy Zoo: morphologies derived from visual inspection of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey★

(2008) Chris J. Lintott et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures

(2008) Luis von Ahn et al.   SCIENCE

Metagenome Annotation Using a Distributed Grid of Undergraduate Students

(2008) Pascal Hingamp et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY