Carolyn Lawrence-Dill, associate professor of genetics, development and cell biology, and others from an interdisciplinary team of Iowa State University scientists turned to crowdsourcing, or relying on large groups of minimally trained people, to repeat a task often enough that researchers could formulate an algorithm that allows a computer to carry out that task automatically.

For the complete story, read ISU News Service's "Researchers use crowdsourcing to speed up data analysis in corn plants."