Would your research benefit from the involvement of thousands of volunteers? Zooniverse is currently seeking proposals for biomedical projects to be developed as part of the Zooniverse platform. The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most successful online platform for crowd-sourced research with over 1.5 million registered volunteers working in collaboration with professional researchers on more than 50 research projects across a range of disciplines, from physics to biology.
Using our unique Project Builder you can create your own Zooniverse project for free with a set of tried and tested tools, including multiple-choice questions and region marking or drawing tools. If the platform doesn’t yet offer the tools you need, please propose your project below (last link on the post); they are particularly interested in developing novel projects that extend the functionality of their platform.
Project Selection
Zooniverse is looking for biomedical projects that will help them expand the functionality of the Zooniverse and build on the selection of tools available to researchers via the platform. Projects may involve a processing task applied to images, graphs, videos or another data format, data collection, or a combination of the two. Successful projects will be developed and hosted by the Zooniverse team, in close collaboration with the applicants. Examples of current biomedical projects include Microscopy Masters, where volunteers classify cryo-electron microscopy images to advance understanding of protein and virus structure, and Worm Watch Lab, which aims to improve understanding of the relationship between genes and behavior.
Selection Criteria:
- Projects extending the capability of the Zooniverse platform or serving as case studies for crowdsourcing in new areas are encouraged.
- Alignment with biomedical research (long-term aim of research is to improve human health outcomes).
- Merit and usefulness of the data expected to result from the project.
Deadline
Project proposals are accepted on a rolling basis. Applications will be reviewed at the beginning of each month.