Wurm Paint

Well, so do we.

You teach us
By helping us paint worms (and competing for wurm titles!), you're teaching us about the brain and behavior of a very small worm. This tiny critter, C. elegans, has many similar genes to humans, which means that by learning about the worm's brain, we can learn about our own brains as well.

Game play
Compete to be top of the leaderboard while earning achievements towards your Master of All Wurms degree! We'll show you images of worms, and all you need to do is draw your best guess of where the center of the worm is. Many of the images you'll see contain worms whose body is crossing or blocking itself (imagine worm yoga!). The centerlines of these postures are difficult to identify computationally, but we humans can guess easily. To check out some example annotations or to see how our worms typically move around, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/wurm/tutorial

See your contribution
We want you to know how much you're helping! By checking your Wurm-o-Meter, you can see how many annotations you've made (wurms you've traced), as well as your overall percent contribution to our community. We also give you an estimate of how many hours of computation you have personally saved us!