or the past three years, 300,000 gamers have helped scientists with genomic research by playing Phylo, an online puzzle game.
Now Jérôme Waldispühl, a McGill University computer science professor who developed the game with colleagues, is making this crowd of players available to scientists around the globe.
The idea is to put human talent to work to improve on what is already being done by computers in the field of comparative genomics.
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