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In an effort to secure mass-collaboration, the company has launched a $7 million competition to reward talented minds for their potential contribution in perfecting the Personal Genome Machine sequencer that the company has developed. The machine relies on semi-conductor technology and has the capability of transforming chemical data into digital information. It is the first of its kind in the world and creative minds can enter the Grand Challenges Contest.

BOINC harnesses the idle time of participants' computers for a massive, crowdsourced version of distributed computing. This computing power is then marshaled for and made available for virtuous scientific necessities including global warming research, planet discovery, extraterrestrial study, and more. The entities and projects utilizing the BOINC platform to crowdsource their research include SETI, FightAIDS@home, the Collatz Conjecture project and more.

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy: Or, if you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM!.

The Great Sunflower Project targets bee and gardening enthusiasts to help research on a large scale what wild bees are doing and what effects there are on polination of garden plants, crops and wild plants.

DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods) poses fundamental questions about systems biology, and invites participants to propose solutions. The main objective is to catalyze the interaction between theory and experiment, specifically in the area of cellular network inference and quantitative model building. DREAM challenges address how we can assess the quality of our descriptions of networks that underlie biological systems, and of our predictions of the outcomes of novel experiments. These are not simple questions. Researchers have used a variety of algorithms to deduce the structure of biological networks and/or to predict the outcome of perturbations to their systems. They have also evaluated the success of their methodologies using a diverse set of non-standardised metrics. What is still needed, and what DREAM aims to achieve, is a fair comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of these methods and a clear sense of the reliability of the models that researchers create.

distributed-computing projects in which volunteers download a small piece of software and let their home computers do some extracurricular work when the machines would otherwise be idle (after Nature article of Eric Hand)

The Open Dinosaur Project was founded to involve scientists and the public alike in developing a comprehensive database of dinosaur limb bone measurements, to investigate questions of dinosaur function and evolution. We have three major goals:1) do good science; 2) do this science in the most open way possible; and 3) allow anyone who is interested to participate. And by anyone, we mean anyone! We do not care about your education, geographic location, age, or previous background with paleontology. The only requirement for joining us is that you share the goals of our project and are willing to help out in the efforts.

Beginning in 2006, NASA's Stardust@home citizen science project allows anyone with Internet access to help in the search for the first samples of solid matter from outside the solar system. To learn more, including how to participate, please click on the About tab above or on any of the links below under "More Information." Then join the search by following the Get Started steps found to the left of this page; or after registering, read the latest Stardust@home news in our blog below. We look forwarded to working with you on this exciting research!

Beginning in 2006, NASA's Stardust@home citizen science project allows anyone with Internet access to help in the search for the first samples of solid matter from outside the solar system. To learn more, including how to participate, please click on the About tab above or on any of the links below under "More Information."

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data

a blog reporting daily findings from the lab

What is TEXTUS? In a nutshell it is an open source platform for working with collections of texts. It harnesses the power of semantic web technologies and delivers them in a simple and intuitive interface so that students, researchers and teachers can share and collaborate around collections of texts. TEXTUS is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Share your science and technology through publications, posters, papers, or slides combined with video and science communities.

Peerage of Science is a community of scientists from 34 countries and over 200 institutions around the world. You may well recognise some of the over 700 Peers. Peerage of Science also involves participating journals and supporting institutions. Also, check out what the community is talking about in the blog.

The Third Reviewer is a forum for scientists to share opinions about recently published research. It's like journal club, but... Faster. No need to set aside an hour of your time. Convenient. Check in from home or at lab, at 5 a.m. or 10 p.m. Comprehensive.

The core service of Faculty of 1000 (F1000) identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance.

DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research.

Connecting scientists worldwide, with blogs, forums, and groups. Social networking for scientists. From the publishers of Nature.

Scholastica makes managing an academic journal better and faster. It provides an academic ecosystem around the activities that scholars do in real life - peer review new ideas, decide which to publish, and discuss new ideas to push knowledge ever forward. Simple tools to help manage your scholarly journal Powerfully search and sort all of your journal's manuscripts.

Now Open for Beta Testing The website is designed to make it quick and convenient to upload reports but also to require enough detail to make the report credible and responsible.The site also provides a discussion forum for each posting, allowing users to discuss the report (potentially allowing collective brainstorming about possible moderator variables, defects in the original study or in the non-replication attempt, etc.)