To fight cancer, competitors are cooperating.

"Technology News" March 1, Google, Amazon and Facebook will work together? These competing tech giants may only work with specific interests. Now the British Cancer Charity (Cancer Research UK) is trying to get the tech giant's technicians to collaborate in designing and developing a mobile game. Surprisingly, this mobile game can help scientists speed up the development of new anticancer drugs.

Can mobile games help fight cancer? According to foreign media reports, the current scientists are the main anti-cancer methods to identify cancer patients with genetic defects in the genetic gene, and then develop targeted new drugs and treatment, but the human genome is huge, to find the disease gene is time-consuming work. Cancer charities in the UK hope to use a mobile phone game, the world's mobile phone users to participate in cancer data research, to help scientists analyze data to speed up the research process.

The British cancer charity plans to collaborate with technicians in technology companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, first requiring 40 programmers, graphic designers, and game gurus to participate in "Gamejam", using weekend time to convert raw genetic data into a format suitable for mobile gaming. And then turn the game idea into reality. The relevant team plans to launch the mobile game in June 2013.

It remains to be seen how the phone game is being developed jointly by technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook.