A new online game harnesses the computational power of idle brains to help decipher the origins of genetic diseases. The game, called Phylo, stands on the shoulders of crowdsourced science giants ...

Recently a couple of college kids who were over for game night were talking about Pokemon, about how they used to know the names of all the Pokemon (at least the first generation, I think). Well ...

Recent years have seen the emergence of the field of phyloinformatics. In the course of a phyloinformatic analysis, data and metadata are generated, transformed, filtered, analyzed and summarized ...

Using a SETI-at-home-like distributed-processing system and a challenging puzzle game, researchers at McGill University are hoping to use human brainpower to map genetic codes.

phylo­Flash is a new soft­ware al­lows fast and straight­ for­ward ana­lysis of en­vir­on­mental mi­crobes ...