Crowdsourcing the General Public for Large Scale Molecular Pathology Studies in Cancer

Crowdsourcing the General Public for Large Scale Molecular Pathology Studies in Cancer

Background: Citizen science, scientific research conducted by non-specialists, has the potential to facilitate biomedical research using available large-scale data, however validating the results is challenging. The Cell Slider is a citizen science project that intends to share images from tumors wi...

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Main Authors: Francisco J. Candido dos Reis, Stuart Lynn, H. Raza Ali, Diana Eccles, Andrew Hanby, Elena Provenzano, Carlos Caldas, William J. Howat, Leigh-Anne McDuffus, Bin Liu, Frances Daley, Penny Coulson, Rupesh J. Vyas, Leslie M. Harris, Joanna M. Owens, Amy F.M. Carton, Janette P. McQuillan, Andy M. Paterson, Zohra Hirji, Sarah K. Christie, Amber R. Holmes, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Douglas F. Easton, Manjeet K. Bolla, Qin Wang, Javier Benitez, Roger L. Milne, Arto Mannermaa, Fergus Couch, Peter Devilee, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Caroline Seynaeve, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Fiona M. Blows, Joyce Sanders, Renate de Groot, Jonine Figueroa, Mark Sherman, Maartje Hooning, Hermann Brenner, Bernd Holleczek, Christa Stegmaier, Chris Lintott, Paul D.P. Pharoah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Citizen science
Crowd science
Crowdsourcing
Breast cancer
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396415300165

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