Tag Archives: crowd sourcing
DNA Day 2025: Mission Accomplished for Bauhinia Genome
Scott Edmunds - April 25, 2025
Regular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of completely gapless telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly which helps advance our understanding of the genomic structure underlying the captivating traits of Hong Kong’s floral emblem. The 25th April is International DNA […]
Power to the People and Their Data – The Open Humans Way. Q&A with Bastian Greshake Tzovaras and Mad Price Ball
Nicole Nogoy - June 27, 2019
Read more about Open Humans from Bastian Greshake Tzovaras & Mad Price Ball, a community-based data sharing platform for ethical participant led research.
The Importance of Annotation: A Q&A with Hypothes.is Director of Biosciences, Maryann Martone
Nicole Nogoy - December 1, 2015
Maryann Martone is Director of Biosciences for Hypothes.is and current President of FORCE11, an organization advancing scholarly communication. She tells us about a new open annotation tool, Hypothes.is, and why the ability to annotate scholarly objects is so important.
Open Data Publishing Goes New Zealand: A Cross Posting For Creative Commons Aotearoa
Nicole Nogoy - February 10, 2015
Our New Zealand based Editor Nicole Nogoy was asked by Creative Commons Aotearoa to write a guest blog on open licensing from a Kiwi perspective
Community Genomes: From the Peoples Parrot, to “Crowdfernding”.
Scott Edmunds - September 30, 2014
An overview of Community Genomes: providing examples of crowdfunded and sourced genomics projects from the Peoples Parrot to “Crowdfernding”.
All systems go at ICSB 2014 and the Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop
Nicole Nogoy - September 24, 2014
All systems go at ICSB 2014 and ou Great GigaScience and Galaxy (G3) workshop we co-organised in Melbourne
A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing
Nicole Nogoy - November 5, 2013
A GigaGathering at ICG8 in the era of big data and crowdsourcing, covering the special track we organised on crowdsourcing and open science.
Save the trees. Play facebook games.
Scott Edmunds - August 13, 2013
Find out about a new Facebook game called Fraxinus that uses and analyses real genetic data from the fungus causing ash dieback disease
Tweenome on Film: Excellent Video on Crowdsourcing Killer Outbreaks
Scott Edmunds - February 21, 2013
The BBSRC has just released an excellent video and article on crowdsourcing killer disease outbreaks very relevant to our recent commentary and blog postings on the OpenAshDB
Open Science versus Ash Dieback (and the Tweenome revisited)
Scott Edmunds - February 13, 2013
Open Science and crowdsourcing versus Ash Dieback (and the Tweenome revisited, with and update on our E. coli genome datasharing adventures)