These months we have been working on different aspects of the game and in parallel with different professionals. The responsible for the Genigma’s image is Xavi Ramiro, illustrator of video game and many other things, who contributed with his art to the project. He has participated from the very beguinning, drawing a first concept during […]
ORION meeting: we present the results of the first year of the project
Genigma is a citizen science experiment funded under the H2020 ORION project, coordinated by the Center for Genomic Regulation CRG . These year the 3rd Annual Meeting of the project has been held virtually, and the Genigma team presented the results of the first year, in which more than 300 people already participated in different […]
Confined yes, but advancing remotely
The emergence of # Covid19 has changed the world and the way of relating, but in many cases, as in our project, it has not prevented progress from being made remotely. In these months we are working in parallel the different teams: designers, programmers, scientists and communicators. You can find out who makes up our […]
Lab phase underway!
After months of testing with data already published, this January we started the experiments in the laboratory. This is an important step: we will extract DNA from the cancer cells that will be analyzed with the game. Yasmina Cuartero and Francois Le Dily are responsible at the CRG for doing the experiments in the lab […]
Players and algorithms
Many of you may wonder how we will ensure that playing Genigma will allow us to obtain scientific results. During last days we have been working in this direction with the data of the games that were obtained from 12 volunteers who played between 20 and 22 November. All match results were collected on the […]
Aligning game and science
On November 22nd, we organized an event with genome researchers to work on aligning the game with the science behind it. Taking advantage of all the information provided to us by the participants of the previous playtest (at the Open Prbb), we introduced some improvements to the prototype of the game, which were tested by […]
Huge citizen participation the first digital playtest at the PRBB OpenDay
Saturday 5 October, during the Open Day of the Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) in Barcelona, Genigma met the general public for the first time and put itself to the test. In fact, more than 150 people of all ages and professions, intrigued by our project, have chosen to sit at our table and try the […]
The importance of scientific collaborations
One of the frequently asked questions addressed to researchers is “What do you do exactly all day in the laboratory?” It is known that our work, which focuses on basic research, doesn’t produce anything concrete or immediately usable. For example, no one would think of asking the same question to a pastry chef, a plumber […]
Why genome structure is important?
We usually consider the human genome as a linear sequence of letters (the nucleotides). These form a book (the DNA molecule) and encode the information that determines the appearance and functions of our body. For example, specific combinations of nucleotides form the genes, that contain the information to produce the different proteins. The latter perform […]
ANT collaborates with Genigma to involve patients in the app design
Genigma begins a collaboration with Fondazione ANT Italia to involve patients, family members and healthcare professionals in the design phase of the app. ANT is one of the collaborators of the ORION Consortium (which supports the project) and collaborates in getting the voice of the public (and especially of patients, families, doctors) to the scientific […]
The Genigma scientific team is growing
Genigma has two new additions to the scientific team. These are Alessandra Merlotti and Pol Ezquerra, who will work side by side with Marco Di Stefano, Juan Rodríguez and Marc Martí Renom in their laboratory at CNAG-CRG. Alessandra is a PhD student at the University of Bologna (Italy). He specializes in the development and application […]
The gameplay works! First test of the prototype
On May 23rd we tested our first prototype with gamers of the Creative Research Park of Barcelona, within the framework of the Festival Calidoscopi19, dedicated to citizen science. We started the 3-hour session by sorting participants by clans and made them play with cards that simulated the mechanics of the video game we’re creating. The […]
Selection of two cancer cell lines for Genigma experiments
In order to select a set of two cancer cell lines on which we will perform the 3D genomics experiments, we conducted a survey among researchers at CRG. Those were the two most voted options and will be the first cell lines analyzed through Genigma. Our priority will be T47D. This cell line is one […]
What do we take away from the participatory process? From co-creations to prototype
GENIGMA aims to collaboratively investigate genomic alterations in cancer cells. The objective is to build, all together, a reference genomic map that allows scientists to understand which parts of the genome could play a fundamental role in the establishment and development of cancer. Our project has been designed as a participatory process that involves citizens […]
el·lipse publishes the chronicle of the 3 co-creations of GENIGMA
The el·lipse magazine, from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), publishes an article on the development of the 3 co-creation sessions that were the starting point for this project. The objective of these sessions was to co-design with the citizens the basis of the game that we will develop to collectively research the genome of […]