NIF Webinar - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT

Hello everyone,

The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Brian Canada as he discusses  Crowdsourcing the Zebrafish Phenome Project .

The following is a description of the webinar:

One of the key objectives of the Zebrafish Phenome Project is to systematically annotate the cellular-level morphological phenotypes associated with each gene in the zebrafish genome. During this webinar, I will offer a demonstration of CABERNET, our proposed crowdsourcing application for the scoring of zebrafish histological abnormalities of varying degrees of severity. Inspired by crowdsourcing "games" and other tools for annotating digital content, CABERNET is designed to promote the generation of high-quality, ontology-compliant "consensus annotations" of phenotypes that are independently contributed by multiple domain experts. Potential mechanisms for "incentivizing" the crowdsourcing of the Zebrafish Phenome Project—or indeed, any large-scale biological data collection project—will also be discussed.

Date and Time: Tuesday,October 4, 2011 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Crowdsourcing the Zebrafish Phenome Project
Presenter: Brian Canada
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.