From a link in the article: <a href="http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/03/01/can-the-power-of-the-public-help-personalise-cancer-treatment/" rel="nofollow">http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/03/01/can-the-p...</a><p>> Take these results from a microarray below: the pink horizontal band is, effectively, the length of a chromosome – and any peaks indicate extra copies of that particular region.<p>> There are four regions where you can see the levels change – these show where alterations have occurred in a specific part of the genome. But to be able to home in exactly on which genes are affected, and identify those that may play a key role in cancer, our scientists need to know precisely where this shift begins and ends – and for this we need the accuracy of the human eye.<p>It sounds like this game is built on the idea the human eye is somehow better at detecting peaks in a signal than a computer, which doesn't make any sense to me.<p>Can someone explain what's actually being gained from the human component here besides good PR?