Players' efforts will soon be felt in the wider scientific field too. So if you want to develop better drugs, understand how humans work, or understand biology, you have to know what the proteins are doing." "From my point of view, that's the interesting part – proteins are the molecules that perform the function, and drugs act by targeting proteins.
You have to cover the whole body and so it's a lot more difficult, from a technological point of view, to study proteins," she continues. But proteins, that's the genes that are expressed, vary through the body. Also, as all cells have the same DNA, you can take a blood sample. "DNA you can amplify so it's easy to study, but you can't amplify proteins. So there's a big gap between protein research and DNA research, and there are several reasons for that," says Lundberg. "We have about 20,000 genes and right now we haven't even proven that more than 70 per cent even exist. The Human Protein Atlas itself is expanding on the mapping of the human genome, but at a much smaller level. "I think that's the biggest difference, that it's integrated into the game." "Part of the problem with the gamification of science is that participation rapidly drops and that's what we hoped we could prevent by doing it in an existing game, with rewards," says Lundberg. It took players just three weeks to get through the entire workload, and are now engaging in a second pass for veracity, with no signs of interest dropping. The identifications are scrambled each time, so it's not as simple as going 'ok, every time I just pick the one on the right' – they have to really think about it."Ĭurrently, EVE players are going through images from Lundberg's domain, who serves as director for the sub-cellular chapter of the atlas.
"Then we also show them examples – cytoplasm is their favourite one! We show them what each of the different images should look like, and just get them to pick a few that they identify within the image. "We show them an image, and they can change the colour of it, putting green or red dyes on it to help them analyse it a little bit better," Linzi Campbell, game designer on Project Discovery, tells WIRED.
Run in conjunction with the Human Protein Atlas and Massively Multiplayer Online Science, the project taps into EVE Online's greatest resource – its player base – to help categorise millions of proteins. Since March, developer CCP Games has been running Project Discovery – an initiative to help improve scientific understanding of the human body at the tiniest levels. The Executive Agency may, until such time as the agreement is signed, either abandon or cancel the procedure without this entitling the applicants on these lists to any compensation.EVE Online isn't just a game about internet spaceships and sci-fi politics. N ote that these lists do not represent any commitment on the part of EACEA and could not constitute a ground to claim any expectations concerning the signature of a grant agreement. The results of the evaluation are as follows:Īs a result of the evaluation process, the following projects were retained for funding: The calls enjoyed a high popularity among applicants, with a total of 175 proposals submitted by the deadline in October 2022. The projects were selected following two open calls for proposals: a Preparatory Action Grassroots sport programmes and infrastructure innovation and a Pilot Project Sport for People and Planet – a new approach on sustainability through sport in Europe. On 25 April 2023, EACEA awarded 13 grants for the implementations of Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions in the field of Sport.
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