BashTheBug
Since each sample had its susceptibility to 13 different antibiotics tested using a 96-well broth micro dilution plate and each of these plates were photographed after two weeks incubation, CRyPTIC ended up generating over 20,000 plate images. Reading the plates is difficult and can be subjective, hence we setup a citizen science project on The Zooniverse, called BashTheBug.
The project was launched in 2017 and ran until 2021.
A paper was published in 2022 in eLife.
Some facts
- 46,427 volunteers took part
- Between them they classified 4,746,420 images of M. tuberculosis growing on different antibiotics.
- The volunteers tended to be younger (52% <34 years) and more likely to be female (60%) than other Zooniverse projects.
- Twenty volunteers did over 20,000 classifications each.
- A survey indicated our volunteers came from over 19 countries with every continent represented.
Some graphs
