title: New citizens for the life sciences.
abstract: For years, the general public have been helping scientists to track weather, count birds, and observe the universe. Now such citizen scientists are starting to tackle research projects in the life sciences. Laura Bonetta reports.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonetta
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*