Grouping People Together by Health... and Microbes (IMAGE)

McGill University

Grouping People Together by Health... and Microbes

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People with similar bacteria in their guts may have similar health profiles and possibly problems. Colony B, a new game developed at McGill asks players to help scientists figure out how to group people together by bacterial profiles, so that researchers can then investigate which bacteria are important.

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Jerome Waldispuhl

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