Lessons from Fraxinus, a crowd-sourced citizen science game in genomics

Lessons from Fraxinus, a crowd-sourced citizen science game in genomics

In 2013, in response to an epidemic of ash dieback disease in England the previous year, we launched a Facebook-based game called Fraxinus to enable non-scientists to contribute to genomics studies of the pathogen that causes the disease and the ash trees that are devastated by it. Over a period of...

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Main Authors: Ghanasyam Rallapalli, Fraxinus Players, Diane GO Saunders, Kentaro Yoshida, Anne Edwards, Carlos A Lugo, Steve Collin, Bernardo Clavijo, Manuel Corpas, David Swarbreck, Matthew Clark, J Allan Downie, Sophien Kamoun, Team Cooper, Dan MacLean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-07-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
Hymenoscyphus fraxinea
ash
crowdsourcing
citizen science
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/07460

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