An article in geneticstimes.com reported on a new game developed by a bioinformatics team at McGill University. The seemingly simple matching game was officially launched today and anyone can play while contributing to science and even learn a thing or two about how evolutionary relationships are established. The game play is addictive and deceivingly easy and there are tutorials to guide you throughout.
I think it's clever how the team capitalized on today's global technology in order for everyone to be involved in our own education while having fun.
So the next time you have two hours in between your classes and are thinking of growing virtual plants or feeding pixelated cows, you may want to check this game out instead. You may be the one to discover why chimps are our closest relative!
Link to the game
The people responsible for this game had a really good idea! This is such an easy way to get all different kinds (ages, races, etc) of people to participate in something, without having to go to each one in person. It's so cool to be able to participate in science from home. Maybe this will start a whole new trend of ways to increase sample size in scientific experiments. I'll definitely be checking this out.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a unique and fantastic idea. I tried playing the game in between one of my classes and couldn't get away from it. I think in the future if the producers used this concept but built upon it, it could really be the start of something great. I'd like to see this develop further and become a new extensive way of learning, giving a new meaning to "hands on science."
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