Mobile app sees science go global

A mobile phone application will help professional and "citizen" scientists collect and analyse data from "in the field", anywhere in the world, reports the BBC.

The EpiCollect software collates data from certain mobiles - on topics such as disease spread or the occurrence of rare species - in a web-based database.

The data is statistically analysed and plotted on maps that are instantly available to those same phones.

The software has been developed for so-called smartphones that run Google's Android open-source operating system.

The approach is outlined in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.

Read BBC full article.

"EpiCollect: Linking Smartphones to Web Applications for Epidemiology, Ecology and Community data collection." PLoS One, 16 September 2009.

emily | 5:16 PM | Technology |
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