EVE Fanfest 2017 - Michel Mayor - Project Discovery Exoplanets.EVE Online - Project Discovery in space.Nature biotechnology - Citizen science lures gamers into Sweden's Human Protein Atlas.Nature methods - Mapping proteins with spatial proteomics.

But for the images to be useful, they need to classify the patterns and localise the corresponding protein. It is a huge database of millions of images, that over 100.000 researchers use every month to understand human biology better, to fight diseases and to create more efficient drugs. TEDx Lausanne - Gamers make a better worldДuring the last year IвЂ™ve worked with the Swedish research group who is building a map of how all human proteins are distributed in our bodies, the Human Protein Atlas.The videogames - designed to emulate popular games - ask players to solve puzzles and complete other tasks to help sort through data and identify patterns. Scientists are recruiting videogamers to help crowdsource answers to research issues. Wall Street Journal - Gaming in the Name of Science.Project Discovery is a joint endeavour between Iceland's CCP Games, the Sweden-based Human Protein Atlas (HPA), Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), and Reykjavik University. Space pilots inside the vast universe of EVE Online will be given the chance to help real-world science with a new project to classify thousands of proteins for in-game rewards. Wired - EVE Online recruits pilots for real-world genetics research.The scheme, named Project Discovery, is a 'game-within-a-game', where players can earn in-game rewards for helping to classify different types of proteins from a massive database. Scientists are getting gamers to do their work for them, by getting players of popular space RPG EVE Online to help categorise a giant database of proteins. Independent - EVE Online players recruited by scientists to take part in crucial genetics research.Im Computergame В«Eve OnlineВ» analysieren Spieler das Erbgut einer mysteriГ¶sen Alien-Rasse und liefern dabei der Wissenschaft wertvolle Erkenntnisse Гјber die Struktur von Proteinen. Neue ZГјricher Zeitung - Gamen fГјr die Forschung.That year, they founded Massively Multiplayer Online Science, a company that pairs game makers with scientists. But it occurred to Szantner and Revaz that the tremendous amount of time and energy that people put into games could be co-opted in the name of human progress. Who hasnвЂ™t felt a house-proud throb of satisfaction at clearing a clutter of Tetris blocks or landing a rocket ship on the moon after centuries of effort in Civilization? Like crosswords and pornography, these activities are both alluring and vacuous: they do little to meet lifeвЂ™s challenges on this side of the screen. No, the problem is that, in providing players with a sense of accomplishment, games may distract our species from genuine achievement. The mediumвЂ™s greatest threat, they concluded, is not that it turns people into vicious killers, or that it dulls their communication skills, or that it sunders their minds from reality. On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and discussed the perils of video games.

The New Yorker - Better research through video games.

As scientists announced that they had found the 'holy grail' of exoplanets вЂ“ a solar system of seven worlds that could support life вЂ“ a game announced that it was beginning the search for the next one. Nasa might have announced the biggest exoplanet find ever, but gamers are already gearing up find the next one.

Independent - Next exoplanet or solar system discovery could be made accidentially by gamers, not by NASA.

The space-based online game EVE Online, which bills itself as 'the worldвЂ™s largest living work of science fiction', is delving into science fact by asking players to help search for planets outside our solar system. If you enjoy navigating distant galaxies, leading intergalactic alliances and fighting space pirates, you might want to take on another challenge - discovering real planets.

New Scientist - EVE Online gamers will seek real exoplanets in virtual universe.

Project Discovery's latest citizen science experiment moves on from proteins to exoplanets.

ArsTechnica UK - How the Space Pope is helping to find real exoplanets by playing Eve Online.

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