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Project Discovery
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Project Discovery is a citizen science initiative, originally embedded within the video game EVE Online, that has players analyze real scientific data, such as protein patterns and cellular imagery, to contribute to genuine research.
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Project Discovery was launched in 2016 through a partnership between EVE Online developer CCP Games, the Human Protein Atlas project, and Massively Multiplayer Online Science, a nonprofit focused on integrating genuine scientific research tasks into popular video games, based on the recognition that certain scientific analysis tasks, such as classifying patterns within microscopy images of human cells to help understand where specific proteins are located within a cell, require human visual pattern recognition abilities that remain difficult to fully automate reliably using computer algorithms alone, but that many individual instances of this kind of image classification work don't require specialized scientific training to perform reasonably well, given proper guidance and training within the tool itself, creating an opportunity to crowdsource this analysis work from a very large volunteer population rather than relying entirely on trained laboratory researchers' more limited available time. The initiative embeds these genuine scientific classification tasks directly within EVE Online, a long-running space-based massively multiplayer online video game with an active and dedicated player community, presenting players with actual scientific data, such as real microscopy images from Human Protein Atlas research, framed as an in-game mini-game activity that players can engage with for in-game rewards, while the underlying classification work they perform contributes genuine, useful data to the actual scientific research project involved. This approach to "citizen science," embedding real research tasks within existing popular entertainment platforms with large, already-engaged user communities, represents a distinctive model relative to standalone citizen science platforms that must build and maintain their own separate user base and engagement specifically around the scientific activity itself, since Project Discovery could draw on EVE Online's existing substantial player base without needing to separately recruit and retain volunteers purely for the scientific contribution alone. Project Discovery has expanded to work with additional scientific research partners beyond its original protein pattern classification work, applying the same crowdsourced, gamified citizen science model to other research areas requiring similar human visual pattern recognition classification tasks that benefit from large-scale volunteer contribution.
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