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*** First scientific paper now out in eLife! https://bit.ly/3LyA60U. Click 'Results' then 'About' ***
Results
To date 46,427 volunteers from over 19 countries have taken part in BashTheBug doing 4,746,420 classifications between them.
A survey found that, compared to the Zooniverse generally, our volunteers tend to be both younger (52% less than 34 years) and more likely to be female (60%).
The first scientific paper has been published in eLife and can be read by anyone using the link below
Fowler PW, Wright C, Spiers H, Zhu T, Baeten EML, Hoosdally SW, Gibertoni Cruz AL, Roohi 2022 13 A, Kouchaki S, Walker TM, Peto TEA, Miller G, Lintott C, Clifton D, Crook DW, Walker AS, The CRyPTIC Consortium
A crowd of BashTheBug volunteers reproducibly and accurately measure the minimum inhibitory concentrations of 13 antitubercular drugs from photographs of 96-well broth microdilution plates
eLife 11:e75046 & bioRxiv preprint doi:10.1101/2021.07.20.453060
The results from the BashTheBug have helped the following scientific papers -- there are others!
Brankin AE, Fowler PW
Inclusion of minor alleles improves catalogue-based prediction of fluoroquinolone resistance in M. tuberculosis
J Antimicrob Chemother AMR (2023) 5(2):dlad039
The CRyPTIC Consortium
Genome-wide association studies of global Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to thirteen
antimicrobials in 10,228 genomes
PLoS Biology (2022) 20(8):e3001755
The CRyPTIC Consortium
Epidemiological cutoff values for a 96-well broth microdilution plate for high-throughput research antibiotic susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis.
Eur Resp J (2022) 60:2200239
The CRyPTIC Consortium
A data compendium associating the genomes of 12,289 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with quantitative resistance phenotypes to 13 antibiotics
PLoS Biology (2022) 20(8):e3001721