Changing the rules of the game.
Genomics researchers have built a Facebook game that allows members of the public to join the effort to understand a disease that has killed millions of ash trees across Europe.
is the head of bioinformatics at the Sainsbury Laboratory , Norwich , United Kingdom , and an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science , University of East Anglia , Norwich , United Kingdom dan.maclean@tsl.ac.uk.
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