Serious games for solving protein sequence alignments - Combining citizen science and gaming

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8395 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 175-185

  Hess, Martin ^a   Wiemeyer, Josef ^a   Hamacher, Kay ^a   Goesele, Michael ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Citizen Science; Game Evaluation; Game Experience; Multiple Sequence Alignments; Protein Sequences; Serious Games

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; GAME EVALUATIONS; GAME EXPERIENCE; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; SERIOUS GAMES;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84901656750     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05972-3_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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