Science Game Lab
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When the Heart BD2K grant was originally written. We proposed to build something called “Big Data World” to help advance citizen science, scientific crowdsourcing and science education – especially in bioinformatics. This past year, this idea has become Science Game Lab ( https://sciencegamelab.org ) . A collaboration between the Su laboratory at Scripps Research, Playmatics LLC, and recently the creators of WikiPathways.
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Science Game Lab
- 2. Outline • Why? • Goals of SGL • Current state • Partnership with Wikipathways • Next steps
- 3. Problems 500000 600000 700000 800000 900000 1000000 Render knowledge contained in more than 1 million articles per year computable. Design RNA molecules Fold proteins Align multiple DNA sequences Map connectivity of neurons in the brain Improve science education… … more
- 4. Each of these problems can benefit from “Human Computation” Render knowledge contained in more than 1 million articles per year computable. Design RNA molecules Fold proteins Align multiple DNA sequences Map connectivity of neurons in the brain Improve science education… Get manypeople working on a problem together ….
- 5. But How?
- 6. Make them into games!
- 7. 150 billion human hours per year McGonigal J. Reality is broken : why games make us better and how they can change the world. New York: Penguin Press; 2011. 0 2E+10 4E+10 6E+10 8E+10 1E+11 1.2E+11 1.4E+11 1.6E+11 empire state building one year of solitaire one year of games 7M 9B 150B
- 8. Doing Science with Games MOLT The Cure
- 9. Learning Science with Games • Many of the more successful games in the previous slide are now ubiquitous in educational settings. e.g. Foldit for teaching 3d protein structure and prediction. • Many games also built with the specific goal of education. http://tinyurl.com/ismbgames
- 10. Games can be used to teach Stegman, Melanie. "Immune Attack players perform better on a test of cellular immunology and self confidence than their classmates who play a control video game." Faraday Discuss 169 (2014): 1-20. Immune Attack http://ImmuneDefenseGame.com • High school students • First person shooter game • Significantly improves understanding of concepts in immunology
- 11. Great! So why Science Game Lab?
- 12. Use of games/gamification in education and research Expressivity: Depth of learning, problems solved Fun Benefits: recruiting, engagement Rosalind.info CACAO Gamified: badges, leaderboards, levels Lecture course: Typically no game elements Classroom, Work… The Cure Foldit Phylo Max5 Game: you “play it”, learning more implicit, purposes aside from education Genes in Space EteRNA Holy Grail ? Cost $$ Cost $$
- 13. Games are not cheap • Basically no tradition of open source code in the game industry • Bioinformatics postdocs generally know nothing about graphic design, Web design, mobile application development… • Without truly great games, it is very hard to gather and keep attention focused for long.
- 14. Science Game Lab • Provides a mechanism for pooling limited resources: – Developers – lower the barrier to entry • Reduce amount of code needed • Make it easier to attract players, students – Players • Make it easier to find games, move from one game to related games • establish a unified identity as a citizen scientist gamer
- 15. What is Science Game Lab? Science Game Lab (SGL) is a centralized online location for scientists and the general population to come together for the purposes of advancing Citizen Science -- specifically through games, activities & community. → Science Game Lab ← www.ScienceGameLab.org ● Open Source Tools ● Developer APIs ● Badges ● Leaderboards ● Community Features
- 16. Much more than a Portal for finding games (but is that too) MOLT The Cure
- 17. www.ScienceGameLab.org Brought to You By...
- 18. Playmatics
- 19. Connecting Gamers & Citizen Scientists to Research Worldwide www.ScienceGameLab.org Players get to access a growing catalogue of research-driven Citizen Science projects that all contribute to a central player score & identity. For Players & Citizen Scientists Around the World ● Take part in a variety of Citizen Sciences games and activities ● Grow and build an online Ranking across all games ● Get access to a central online profile, leaderboards, message boards and more. ● Access games related to a variety of scientific fields. ● Be part of something that will potentially change the world.
- 21. Home (try at own risk..) sciencegamelab.org/beta.php More games… Site Wide High Score games Achievements Help Profile
- 22. User Profile
- 24. Game Page
- 25. The SGL iFrame Experience Content delivered from game partner (here WP) Rendered in SGL provided iframe
- 26. SGL API records actions sent from game, provides users feedback in context captures information for use on SGL
- 27. More activities guides users to other tasks provided by partner game
- 28. Learning to read pathway task
- 29. Learning to edit pathway task
- 32. Tasks organized into Quests
- 33. How did that work? • Game developer builds game or series of tasks they want player to perform • Game developer uses SGL developer tools to bind events in the game to triggers that send information to SGL. • SGL tracks user behavior across games, providing in-game and site-wide rewards.
- 34. Developers 1. Create an account on SGL 2. Request developer access (currently by email..) 3. Build game 4. Go to developer portal and configure SGL- specific game events 1. reward points 2. group into quests 3. assign badges More information at: http://tinyurl.com/sgldev
- 35. Dev Portal visible to authenticated devs.
- 36. Managing a game in SGL
- 37. SGL now
- 41. WikiPathways... in Science GAME lab ? “…. it addresses our greatest challenge of convincing people they are qualified and skilled enough to contribute to the knowledge base. And… we also want to make it fun!” -- Alex Pico, WikiPathways
- 43. ?
- 45. Wikipathways uses for SGL • Now: As a framework for recruiting and training new users – “transform their User Manuals and training videos into interactive content that can plug into SGL. Through SGL they can turn this content into quests, friendly competitions and achievements.” • Future: As a crowdsourcing system for accomplishing streams of curation tasks related to pathway construction.
- 47. Published figures WikiPathways models Image processing + human editors
- 48. Many Thanks To • Sara Santini • John Szeder • Patrick Mooney • Melanie Stegman • Margaret Wallace • Nicholas Fortugno • Alex Pico • Anders Riutta • Kristina Hanspers • Ginger Tsueng • Andrew Su Contact bgood@scripps.edu @bgood on twitter This work was supported by the US National Institute of Health (grants GM089820 and U54GM114833) and by the Scripps Translational Science Institute with an NIH-NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA; 5 UL1 TR001114). With ideas and support from: Jérôme Waldispühl, Antoine Taly, Dan Maclean, Jesse Himmelstein
Editor's Notes
- When the Heart BD2K grant was originally written. We proposed to build something called “Big Data World” to help advance citizen science, scientific crowdsourcing and science education – especially in bioinformatics. This past year, this idea has become Science Game Lab. A collaboration between the Su laboratory at Scripps Research, Playmatics LLC, and recently the creators of WikiPathways.
- Why? What is the problem? crowdsourcing, education Isolated attempts, a scattered landscape Games, wikis, and more in bioinformatics Towards unification Science Game Center Goals of SGL audience, mechanism Current state Partnership with Wikipathways Next steps
- how many hours in a year
- [[possible segue]] The group developing WikiPathways is also interested in extracting useful biomedical knowledge from the literature. Their focus, however, is on published figures of pathway diagrams. WikiPathways is a database of pathway models that can be used to perform data integration, analysis and visualization [[stuff on the right side]]. The content for these models typically comes from researchers’ own work or it’s extracted from the literature and published figures [[stuff on left side]].
- Unlike traditional databases, WikiPathways is a wiki (like Wikipedia) and has put the tools for pathway modeling into the hands of the public. This approach has been working well as you can see from this growth curve relative to one of the most popular pathway databases (KEGG). But, there is still a long way to go… [[click]] And this is just to get the most basic coverage of human genes involved in pathways. Where is this content going to come from?...
- Well, thousands of pathway figures are indexed by PubMed Central each year. And based on initial image processing on a sample of 4000 of these figures, the majority of the content has yet to be captured by any pathway database. This information is essentially trapped in image files, inaccessible to data analysis.
- One way they are approaching this problem at WikiPathways is to pre-process the images to make “starter” pathway models, which can then be refined by editors and curators. They are going to need to recruit hundreds, if not thousands, of contributors with at least some basic level of pathway biology knowledge.