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Introduction RiceWiki, a project of IC4R (Information Commmons for Rice) as well as a component of ScienceWikis, is a wiki-based, publicly editable and open-content platform for community curation of genes and Omics Knowledge in rice, viz., a community-curated resource of rice knowledge. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki harnesses collective intelligence to collect, edit and annotate information about rice, quantifies users' contributions in each annotated gene and provides explicit authorship for each contributor to encourage more participation from the whole scientific community. Welcome to join us ! Nothing great is ever accomplished in isolation. – Yo-Yo Ma Featured gene(s): Os01g0883800

Rice Genome Overview Oryza sativa Japonica Group Chromosome 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12 Oryza sativa Indica Group Chromosome 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12

Rice Story As an important food Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies. It is the grain with the third-highest worldwide production, after maize (corn) and wheat, according to data for 2009. As a biological model Rice is not only an important food for human, but also a model organism for the biological study of the grass family of crops and other plants. The two most common rice cultivars, indica and japonica, were completely sequenced in 2002. The genome sequences of domesticated rice provide a solid foundation for integrating biological information, including genetics, gene expression, development, physiology and evolution. Recent Modified Genes Template:RecentActivity:type=edits Highly Accessed Genes Template:RecentActivity:type=visits Most Annotated Genes Template:RecentActivity:type=contributes

Joining RiceWiki RiceWiki allows any user to view and search but only registered users can add and edit content. To become a registered user, please email the RiceWiki Team at ricewiki@big.ac.cn to tell us your preferred login name, real name, research interests, etc., and we will set up an account for you. Please also spread this news to any one who might be of interest.

About Us Our group works in the field of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB), currently with a particular focus on building biological knowledge wikis in aid of community curation of massive biological knowledge.

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Publications RiceWiki: a wiki-based database for community curation of rice genes, in preparation (2012). Increasing community participation in biological knowledge wikis through automated authorship quantification, in preparation (2012).