play a game for the benefit of humanity
Genome alignment is a typical method in comparative genomics. It needs higher computing capabilities as distributed computing and parallel computing to align multiple biological sequences. Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is an intermediate and difficult task for most types of analysis. In parallel to that human brain is capable of solving some special kind of puzzles.
By exploiting this capability, hard parts of DNA sequence alignments can be crowd-sourced to typical game players and the solutions can be saved into a central database. This is about a game called “Genenigma” that was developed to dispatch the hard parts of Multiple DNA sequence alignments to get aligned by the typical mobile game players. Every player is authenticated to save his progress. Therefore he/she can start from where he stopped the game at last time. Since game players want to level up, Genenigma gives levels for puzzle/sequence alignment. Actually each level is composed of set of stages and they are like sub goals of a level. When the player’s score is higher than or equals to the hidden score, he/she can proceed to the next level. At the same time his puzzle alignment is converted to normal ACGT character sequences and get saved to a central database.
Learderboard shows the highscores for each level in the game, its sequence alignment, and the player
| Level | Score | Sequence Alignment | Player |
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If you want to know more about this project email me.
email: amila.15@cse.mrt.ac.lk