Crowdsourcing for scientific discovery: Researchers find novel ways to analyze data for drug and target discovery

Medical Xpress — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:00:08 +0000

In a unique project, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have crowdsourced the annotation and analysis of a large number of gene expression profiles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). More than 70 volunteers from 25 countries helped Mount Sinai researchers analyze the data, enabling...

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Crowdsourcing for scientific discovery: Researchers find novel ways to analyze data for drug and target discovery