GeSort

What is GeSort?

GeSort is a citizen science game that solves the genome sorting problem in genomics.

What is Genome Sorting Problem?

Genome sorting is the problem to find out the minimum number of events that transforms one genome to another.

Goal of the Game

The goal of this game to transform an ordered sequence of genes into another with three operations (duplications, deletions and inversions). Here the genes are represented in coloured shapes.

Data Collection

No confidential data will be asked or recorded. We will only store the data related to solve the puzzle which helps us in the research.

Publications

Rogerio de Leon Pereira, Olivier Tremblay-Savard (2023). Lessons Learned from Video Game Players Sorting Genomes. The 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), pp 1-11.
Rogerio de Leon Pereira, Anthony Tan, Andrea Bunt, Olivier Tremblay-Savard (2021). Increasing player engagement, retention and performance through the inclusion of educational content in a citizen science game. The 16th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), pp 1-12.
Anjum Matin, Mardel Maduro, Rogerio de Leon Pereira, Olivier Tremblay-Savard (2020). Effect of Timer, Top Score and Leaderboard on Performance and Motivation in a Human Computing Game. in International Conference on The Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 1-10.
Rogerio de Leon Pereira, Andrea Bunt, Olivier Tremblay-Savard (2019). Promoting Learning and Engagement in Human Computing Games: a Study of Educational Material Formats. HCOMP.
Singh, A., Drogaris, C., Nazarova, E., Blanchette, M., Waldispühl, J., Matin, A. I., ... & Tremblay-Savard, O. (2017). A Human-Computation Platform for Multi-Scale Genome Analysis. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). Retrieved from https://www.humancomputation.com/2017/papers/100_human-computation-platform.pdf.

Credits

Project Leader

Olivier Tremblay-Savard

Development Team

Rogerio de Leon Pereira

Former Contributors

Anjum Ibna Matin

Anthony Tan

Mardel Maduro

Mohsen Yousefian

Technical Support

Gilbert E. Detillieux

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