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ScienceWikis is a catalog of biological knowledge wikis and wiki extensions, aiming to exploit the full potential of wiki technology to harness community intelligence in knowledge integration and curation.

Purpose & Aims

• 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.

Biological Wikis

LncRNAWiki A wiki-based database for community curation of human long non-coding RNAs.

RiceWiki A community-curated knowledgebase for the rice research community.

WikiCell A portal for a unified view of the human transcriptome.

ESND A wiki-based English-to-Chinese Scientific Nomenclature Dictionary.

Wiki extensions

Wiki extensions to facilitate biological content creation and editing, data visualization, exchange and sharing through a variety of e-utility methods.

AuthorReward

• Description: A wiki extension to provide a standard practice to reward community-curated efforts in bio-wikis through contribution quantification and explicit authorship.
• Reference: AuthorReward: increasing community curation in biological knowledge wikis through automated authorship quantification, Bioinformatics, 2013, 29(14):1837-1839.
• Availability: http://code.google.com/p/authorreward, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AuthorReward

LiMi

• Description: literature mining in aid of gene annotation in biological knowledge wikis.

ColSeq

• Description: color molecular sequence according to sequence features.