Ever wanted to help scientists while playing videogames? It's your lucky day. Most of the crowdsourcing we hear about on a daily basis is for various Kickstarter campaigns, but CCP Games intends to redefine the way we look at crowdsourcing.
CCP announced a partnership with Reykjavik University and Massively Multiplayer Online Science at EVE Vegas 2015 to bring you a new EVE Online mini game called Project Discovery. But it's not like any mini game you've played before. In the new game, players look at cells and identify proteins.
Their findings then get mapped on the Human Protein Atlas, which is an extensive and publicly available map of human protein distribution. "Researchers use this huge database to better understand things like cell biology, gene function, and diseases such as cancer," says Andie Nordgren AKA CCP Seagull in the event's keynote speech.
This is crowdsourcing at its finest and could significantly cut down the researchers' work. This advancement could even pave the way for more projects that source MMO players to better society.
You can check out the keynote below. The announcement occurs at around 54:40 and features some of the project researchers. Just please don't tell Glenn Beck about this news.
