ScienceWikis:Purpose

• Build professional academic wikis for biological knowledge integration and curation (such as, wiki-based gene annotation system).

• Measure users' contributions, give explicit authorship and provide a standard practice to reward community-curated efforts in bio-wikis.

• Provide a central archive of quantitative contributions and citations in different bio-wikis.

• Develop wiki extensions to facilitate biological content creation and editing, data visualization, exchange and sharing.