THE FIRST PAPER BASED ON DOMINANT WRITING CONTRIBUTIONS BY NON-EXPERT CITIZEN SCIENTISTS.
THE FIRST PAPER BASED ON DOMINANT WRITING CONTRIBUTIONS BY NON-EXPERT CITIZEN SCIENTISTS. Here is an article by John Bohannon about “the first paper based on dominant writing contributions—and co-lead authorship—by non-expert citizen scientists recruited through a video game.” The paper is based on a game called Eterna which “made a big splash in 2014 with a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that had 37,000 players as co-authors.”
The paper establishes a set of benchmarks which gauge the design difficulties of RNA structures. It shows that one class of design difficulties that are hard for humans are also hard for computer algorithms.