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| Title |
Phylo: A Citizen Science Approach for Improving Multiple Sequence Alignment
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0031362 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alexander Kawrykow, Gary Roumanis, Alfred Kam, Daniel Kwak, Clarence Leung, Chu Wu, Eleyine Zarour, Luis Sarmenta, Mathieu Blanchette, Jérôme Waldispühl |
| Abstract |
Comparative genomics, or the study of the relationships of genome structure and function across different species, offers a powerful tool for studying evolution, annotating genomes, and understanding the causes of various genetic disorders. However, aligning multiple sequences of DNA, an essential intermediate step for most types of analyses, is a difficult computational task. In parallel, citizen science, an approach that takes advantage of the fact that the human brain is exquisitely tuned to solving specific types of problems, is becoming increasingly popular. There, instances of hard computational problems are dispatched to a crowd of non-expert human game players and solutions are sent back to a central server. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 39 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 26% |
| Canada | 4 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 3% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Egypt | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 16 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 19 | 49% |
| Members of the public | 19 | 49% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 292 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 6% |
| Germany | 5 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| France | 3 | 1% |
| Canada | 3 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Spain | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 6 | 2% |
| Unknown | 247 | 85% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 66 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 65 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 37 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 8% |
| Other | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 44 | 15% |
| Unknown | 37 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 88 | 30% |
| Computer Science | 53 | 18% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 14 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 4% |
| Other | 62 | 21% |
| Unknown | 44 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 137. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 April 2024.
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#4,375
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#1,312
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#59
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Altmetric has tracked 25,718,113 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 223,892 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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