BIOT 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Christmas Bird Count, Galaxy Zoo, Comparative Genomics
2 Jan 2018
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Msa into puzzle: result hep make better alignment of genomes. Citizen science/crowdsourcing/human-computing: developing application to involve people into real research. Citizen science: process of developing programs/projects involving non-professionals into research in general. Important revolution for society we live now; projects are designed, and power fueled are from experts but also common citizens. Is not grid computing because is not soley sharing resources (eg. someone has access to your computer) but to be actively involved in participation of project (eg. Challenge is build momentum and gather appropriate number of participants. Visual pattern recognition of humans is one of the most advanced capacities human have, so take advantage of this: Have expert try to remove noise that would hinder comet search. Gel is quite big, and many microscopy images to screen. The human eye/brain is much more complicated and can do more things than the computer. Have computer identify, but only 90% of the time is accurate.
