Title
Lessons from an Online Massive Genomics Computer Game.
Abstract
Crowdsourcing through human-computing games is an increasingly popular practice for classifying and analyzing scientific data. Early contributions such as Phylo have now been running for several years. The analysis of the performance of these systems enables us to identify patterns that contributed to their successes, but also possible pitfalls. In this paper, we review the results and user statistics collected since 2010 by our platform Phylo, which aims to engage citizens in comparative genome analysis through a casual tile matching computer game. We also identify features that allow predicting a task difficulty, which is essential for channeling them to human players with the appropriate skill level. Finally, we show how our platform has been used to quickly improve a reference alignment of Ebola virus sequences.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
HCOMP
Genome,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Genomics,Human computation,Artificial intelligence,Casual,Multiple sequence alignment,Machine learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Akash Singh110.36
Faizy Ahsan211.03
Mathieu Blanchette363162.65
Jérôme Waldispühl411116.24