Biological Wikis

Name	Description	Availability	MediaWiki-based	Reference
959 Nematode Genomes	A semantic wiki for coordinating sequencing projects	http://www.nematodegenomes.org	Yes	[1]
ArrayWiki	A community-maintained system for sharing public microarray data repositories and meta-analyses	http://arraywiki.bme.gatech.edu	Yes	[2]
BOWiki	An ontology-based wiki for annotation of data and integration of knowledge	http://www.bowiki.net	No	[3]
EcoliWiki	A wiki-based community resource for Escherichia coli	http://ecoliwiki.net	Yes	[4]
ESND	A wiki-based English-to-Chinese scientific nomenclature dictionary	http://esnd.big.ac.cn	Yes	[5]
Gene Wiki	A wiki harnessing community intelligence to the annotation of human gene and protein function	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki	Yes	[6]
GONUTS	A community-based browser and usage guide for Gene Ontology (GO) terms and a community system for general GO annotation of proteins	http://gowiki.tamu.edu	Yes	[7]
MetaBase	A community-curated database of commonly used biological databases	http://www.metadatabase.org	Yes	[8]
PDBWiki	A community annotated knowledge base of biological molecular structures	http://www.pdbwiki.org	Yes	[9]
Proteopedia	A scientific wiki bridging the rift between three-dimensional structure and function of biomacromolecules	http://www.proteopedia.org	Yes	[10]
Rfam	A community-derived annotation of RNA families	http://rfam.sanger.ac.uk	Yes	[11]
RiceWiki	A wiki-based, publicly editable and open-content platform for community annotation of rice genes	http://ricewiki.big.ac.cn	Yes	Unpublished
SEQanswers Wiki	A wiki database of tools for high-throughput sequencing analysis	http://wiki.SEQanswers.com	Yes	[12]
SNPedia	A wiki supporting personal genome annotation, interpretation and analysis	http://www.snpedia.com	Yes	[13]
SubtiWiki	A comprehensive community resource for the model organism Bacillus subtilis	http://subtiwiki.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page	Yes	[14]
Transdab Wiki	A wiki database of transglutaminase substrate proteins	http://genomics.dote.hu/wiki	Yes	[15]
WikiCell	A unified resource platform for human transcriptomics research	http://www.wikicell.org	Yes	[16]
WikiGenes	A collaborative knowledge resource for the life sciences	http://www.wikigenes.org	No	[17]
WikiPathways	An open, public platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways	http://www.wikipathways.org	Yes	[18]
WikiProteins	A wiki-based system for community annotation of proteins	http://www.wikiprofessional.org	(Not available)	[19]

References:

1. Kumar S, Schiffer PH, Blaxter M. 959 Nematode Genomes: a semantic wiki for coordinating sequencing projects, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1295-1300.
2. Stokes TH, Torrance JT, Li H et al. ArrayWiki: an enabling technology for sharing public microarray data repositories and meta-analyses, BMC Bioinformatics 2008;9 Suppl 6:S18.
3. Hoehndorf R, Bacher J, Backhaus M et al. BOWiki: an ontology-based wiki for annotation of data and integration of knowledge in biology, BMC Bioinformatics 2009;10 Suppl 5:S5.
4. McIntosh BK, Renfro DP, Knapp GS et al. EcoliWiki: a wiki-based community resource for Escherichia coli, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1270-1277.
5. Dai L, Xu C, Tian M et al. Community intelligence in knowledge curation: an application to managing scientific nomenclature, PLoS One 2013;8:e56961.
6. Good BM, Clarke EL, de Alfaro L et al. The Gene Wiki in 2011: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1255-1261.
7. Renfro DP, McIntosh BK, Venkatraman A et al. GONUTS: the Gene Ontology Normal Usage Tracking System, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1262-1269.
8. Bolser DM, Chibon PY, Palopoli N et al. MetaBase--the wiki-database of biological databases, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1250-1254.
9. Stehr H, Duarte JM, Lappe M et al. PDBWiki: added value through community annotation of the Protein Data Bank, Database (Oxford) 2010;2010:baq009.
10. Hodis E, Prilusky J, Martz E et al. Proteopedia - a scientific 'wiki' bridging the rift between three-dimensional structure and function of biomacromolecules, Genome Biol 2008;9:R121.
11. Gardner PP, Daub J, Tate J et al. Rfam: Wikipedia, clans and the "decimal" release, Nucleic Acids Res 2011;39:D141-145.
12. Li JW, Robison K, Martin M et al. The SEQanswers wiki: a wiki database of tools for high-throughput sequencing analysis, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1313-1317.
13. Cariaso M, Lennon G. SNPedia: a wiki supporting personal genome annotation, interpretation and analysis, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1308-1312.
14. Mader U, Schmeisky AG, Florez LA et al. SubtiWiki--a comprehensive community resource for the model organism Bacillus subtilis, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1278-1287.
15. Csosz E, Mesko B, Fesus L. Transdab wiki: the interactive transglutaminase substrate database on web 2.0 surface, Amino Acids 2009;36:615-617.
16. Zhao D, Wu J, Zhou Y et al. WikiCell: a unified resource platform for human transcriptomics research, OMICS 2012;16:357-362.
17. Hoffmann R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters, Nat Genet 2008;40:1047-1051.
18. Kelder T, van Iersel MP, Hanspers K et al. WikiPathways: building research communities on biological pathways, Nucleic Acids Res 2012;40:D1301-1307.
19. Mons B, Ashburner M, Chichester C et al. Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins, Genome Biol 2008;9:R89.