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ScienceWikis is supported by the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365).
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Revision as of 00:11, 6 July 2012

ScienceWikis is a catalog of biological knowledge wikis, aiming to exploit the full potential of wiki technology in life sciences.

Purpose & Aims

  • Build biological knowledge wikis, such as, wiki-based gene annotation system.
  • Develop wiki extensions to facilitate biological content creation and editing, data visualization, exchange and sharing.
  • Measure users' contributions, give explicit authorship, and provide a standard practice for rewarding users' contributions in bio-wikis.

Funding

ScienceWikis is developed and maintained by the Zhang Lab at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

ScienceWikis is supported by grants from:

  • the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365), and
  • National Programs for High Technology Research and Development (863 Program; 2012AA020409), the Ministry of Science and technology of the People’s Republic of China.