Classroom crowdscience: Students challenged to detect schizophrenia genes
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 17:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Teaching big data to future scientists means having them think creatively about ways to harness the terabytes of information available to them. To that end, a systems biologist used his graduate course to host a classroom competition tasking students with detecting genes associated with schizophrenia. The winning technique was quick, flexible, and outperformed previously published methods.