A very short presentation about the potential of games in the context of gene annotation

1. CROWDSOURCING BIOCURATION WITH
BIOLOGICAL GAMES
Benjamin Good
The Scripps Research Institute
@bgood

2. BIOCURATORS FACED WITH MASSIVE AND
GROWING AMOUNT OF WORK
• approaching 1 million articles
1,000,000
added to PubMed every year
• By the end of my talk several
800,000
new papers will be have been
added....
600,000
new pubmed 400,000
articles
200,000
0
1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009
year

3. HUMAN EFFORT AT MASSIVE SCALE
Seven million hours of human labor
Empire State Building

4. HUMAN EFFORT AT MORE MASSIVE SCALE
It is estimated that 9 billion
hours of human labor were
spent playing solitaire in
2005.
Von Ahn L. : Google Tech Talk: Human Computation 2006.

5. HUMAN EFFORT AT TRULY MASSIVE SCALE
Estimated that 150 billion hours spent playing games in 2010
1.6E+11
1.4E+11
1.2E+11
1E+11
8E+10
6E+10
hours worked
4E+10
2E+10
0
empire state one year of one year of
building solitaire games
McGonigal J. Reality is broken : why games make us
better and how they can change the world.
New York: Penguin Press; 2011.

6. 50
-
150 billion human hours
per year
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rvp-cw/6243289302/

7. Seven million hours of human labor =
1
Empire State Building
Von Ahn L. : Google Tech Talk: Human Computation 2006.

8. 150 billion hours of human game play = nothing

9. 150 billion hours of human game play = nothing

10. GAMES WITH A PURPOSE
Label all images on the Web
Devise protein folding algorithms
Fix multiple sequence alignments
Design RNA molecules

11. Annotate the human genome