Prize-based contests can provide solutions to computational biology problems

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 108-111

  Lakhani, Karim R ^a,b   Boudreau, Kevin J ^b,c   Loh, Po Ru ^d   Backstrom, Lars ^e   Baldwin, Carliss ^a   Lonstein, Eric ^a   Lydon, Mike ^e   MacCormack, Alan ^a   Arnaout, Ramy A ^f,g   Guinan, Eva C ^g,h  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Institute for Quantitative Social Science   (United States)

^c LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e TopCoder Inc   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALGORITHM; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICINE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROWDSOURCING; IMMUNOGENETICS; INDEL MUTATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTEIN FOLDING;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS;

EID: 84873598227     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.2495     Document Type: Letter

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