Genome detectives – we want you

Project specs

Category

Biology

Contact

Frances Colles

Country

UK

Funding agency

Wellcome Trust

Length

02:00

Summary

A beginners guide to performing the curation tasks required to the Zooniverse citizen-science project.

Researcher Profile

We are a team of researchers based at Oxford University and led by Professor Martin Maiden. We use bacterial DNA sequence to look for targets for new vaccines, understand how bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics, or find ways in which food safety may be improved, for example.

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