ScienceWikis:About
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.