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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

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 Contributed Genes Template:RecentActivity:type=contributes

Joining RiceWiki RiceWiki allows any user to view and search but only registered users to add and edit content. We do hope a wide range of people, including researchers, teachers, students, etc., can join RiceWiki to collaboratively annotate rice genes. Please become a registered user to make contributions and/or 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), applying computer science, mathematics and statistics to practical problems arising from the management and analysis of large-scale biological data. Currently, we are particularly interested in building wiki-based platforms in aid of biological knowledge integration.

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