# Cancer Research UK urges volunteer citizen scientists to help analyse its data

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/12/05/cancer-research-uk-urges-volunteer-citizen-scientists-help-analyse-its-data/
- Published: 2012-12-05T10:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Cancer Research UK has launched ClicktoCure, an online initiative that aims to
crowdsource help from the public in analysing data from its studies of the disease.**

The charity is asking 'citizen scientists' to examine images amassed from testing
treatments on tumor samples and flag up any that appear to be irregular cells. Thousands
of people have already donated their time to the project and 278,962 images have
been analysed.

CRUK explains to participants "our datasets still require analysis by real people
and cannot be left to computers alone. It takes human intuition and the human eye
to spot patterns, defects and anomalies-computer algorithms just aren’t good enough.
The process is slow for a lone scientist, but with the collective power of hundreds
of thousands of people, we can speed up this research by years".

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The minisite has been created by citizen science organisation Zooniverse who work
with NASA and other organisations to run large scale public participation science
activities online.

[www.clicktocure.net](http://www.clicktocure.net)