Gamers Help Analyze Microbiome Data - Microbial Minutes

Are video games the future of microbiome analyses? Some scientists think so.
Researchers integrated a mini game into the commercially successful video game, Borderlands 3, in which gamers solve puzzles and, in doing so, help analyze sequencing data of gut bacteria.
Since its release, 4 million players have solved 135 million puzzles in the mini game, known as Borderlands Science. Researchers use these gamer-generated solutions to optimize sequencing analysis methods and, ultimately, advance understanding of the human gut microbiome.
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Resources
Featured Study
Sarrazin-Gendron, R., et al. Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game. Nature Biotechnology, April 15, 2024. www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
Additional Sources
DNA Puzzles. Am I Really Helping by Playing Borderlands Science? Dnapuzzles.org, April 13, 2023. dnapuzzles.org/2020/04/13/am-...
DNA Puzzles. Using Puzzle Solutions to Aerate Alignments. Dnapuzzles.org, Feb. 9, 2023. dnapuzzles.org/2021/02/09/usi...
Borderlands. Borderlands 3- Borderlands Science Official Trailer. CZcams, April 7, 2020. • Borderlands 3 - Border...
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[@kesavapriyan3257]

Interesting and useful video

[@asmicrobiology]

Thanks a lot!

[@persistentone3448]

This is next-level genius. But clarify something for me. Most commercial sequencing uses 16s DNA. The DNA examined is the gene for the 16s rRNA. It sounds like your game developer was sequencing 16s rRNA sequences directly, not the DNA of the 16s gene? Probably that should have been clarified early on.

[@shlimey04]

Help me, my bowel movements havent been normal for a month now