Citizen Science for Mining the Biomedical Literature

PubMed, an online bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical articles, currently comprises of over 26 million indexed articles. This rapidly growing body of biomedical literature presents both an opportunity and a headache to researchers looking to extract...

NCATS spotlight Mark2Cure citizen science project

Biomedical scientists are publishing new discoveries at a rapid rate. Currently, PubMed, the primary database for biomedical literature housed by NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, contains more than 26 million articles and is expanding by more than...

Scripps Scientists Named to ‘Big Data’ Project

Andrew Su of The Scripps Research Institute has been named a co-director of a new center to apply the growing torrent of “big data” to complex biological problems. The Center for Excellence for Big Data Computing at UCLA is one of 12 centers announced last week by the...