Incorporating a Commercial Biology Cloud Lab into Online Education

Riedel-Kruse, Ingmar H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64352-6_32

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“…These technologies can scale to millions of annual experiments at costs of cents per experiment (23). Biology cloud labs have been successfully deployed for K-12, college, and online education (22,23,28,115,116). As part of a MOOC (massive open online course), a biology cloud lab enabled the execution of key scientific practices, including experimentation, hypothesis formulation, and genuine discovery (28).…”

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Scientific Discovery Games for Biomedical Research

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Washington

et al. 2019

Annu. Rev. Biomed. Data Sci.

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Over the past decade, scientific discovery games (SDGs) have emerged as a viable approach for biomedical research, engaging hundreds of thousands of volunteer players and resulting in numerous scientific publications. After describing the origins of this novel research approach, we review the scientific output of SDGs across molecular modeling, sequence alignment, neuroscience, pathology, cellular biology, genomics, and human cognition. We find compelling results and technical innovations arising in problem-oriented games such as Foldit and Eterna and in data-oriented games such as EyeWire and Project Discovery. We discuss emergent properties of player communities shared across different projects, including the diversity of communities and the extraordinary contributions of some volunteers, such as paper writing. Finally, we highlight connections to artificial intelligence, biological cloud laboratories, new game genres, science education, and open science that may drive the next generation of SDGs.

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