The crowdsourced analysis hoping to go viral

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Crowdsourcing image analysis to better understand how viruses multiply inside cells

Scientists love data, but sometimes there’s too much to handle. Fortunately, a collaboration between the citizen science platform Zooniverse, the UK’s national synchrotron facility and the University of Oxford, UK is demonstrating the power of the public when it comes to the analysis of large data sets.