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Results: Participatory health is a growing area with individuals using health social networks, crowdsourced studies, smartphone health applications, and personal health records to achieve positive outcomes for a variety of health conditions. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. These operators have published findings in the areas of disease research, drug response, user experience in crowdsourced studies, and genetic association. Quantified Self, Genomera, and DIYgenomics are communities of participant-organized health research studies where individuals conduct self-experimentation and group studies. Crowdsourced health research studies have a diversity of intended outcomes and levels of scientific rigor.s

Automatic analysis of news related to food security issues in French language media (national and local). Text-mining network analysis tools are used to identify the key themes discussed in the press at a given period.

The Cyberinfrastructure Shell (CIShell) is an open source, community-driven platform for the integration, utilization and visualization of datasets, algorithms, tools, and computing resources. CIShell supports the plug-and-play of datasets and algorithms and their bundling into custom tools including Network Workbench, TexTrend, Sci² and EpiC.