http://gigaom.com/2013/03/01/can-a-mobile-game-help-find-the-cure-for-cancer-amazon-google-and-facebook-hope-so/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2013/03/01/can-a-mobile-game-help-find-the-cure-for-cancer-amazon-google-and-facebook-hope-so/#comment-1319052 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:46:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=615681#comment-1319052 This exercise is reminiscent of the Drosophila genome annotation “Jamboree” in 2000 that resulted in a Science paper entitled “Comparative Genomics of the Eukaryotes.” http://www.markboguski.net/docs/publications/Rubin-etal.pdf
This was an early example of focused crowd-sourcing and collaboration.

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