NanoDoc

nanodoc.org

20 points·jlee614··13 comments

A couple of guys out of the Bhatia Lab at MIT have made a game out of design and optimization of cancer nanotherapeutics. Nanodoc (http://nanodoc.org/) is on online game that allows bioengineers and the general public to design new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer.

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Sorry, but requiring a social network account to play this is simply ridiculous. Provide alternative options if you want this to catch on.

Great feedback, will do!

Yup. I was actually really excited to try this, but was not okay with the permissions it requires for said social networks.

Ok, we limited the facebook permissions. Hope this works better!

I don't particularly mind having to connect to Facebook, but the permissions required go way beyond what makes sense for what this game claims to be. When I denied access, it caused a server error on the nanodoc website.

Thanks! That can easily be changed, what permissions would be acceptable? I'll make the fix.

We just restricted the facebook permissions. Should be more acceptable.

Great experiment, but I wonder how usefull can be a bunch of people playing a game without any knowledge of biomedicine.

I haven't played it yet, but it might be useful in training neural nets?

Great to see another swarm game!

Check out the one we're doing for ICRA this year:

http://swarmcontrol.herokuapp.com

(you don't even need to log in to play!)

Very cool idea! The name made me think this was something about text editors and documentation, but I doubt most people outside of this context will make that association.

Great to see swarm robotics combined with crowd-sourcing - such a natural fit.

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