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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 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.

Ongoing sub-projects

Biological knowledge wikis

• RiceWiki: a wiki-based gene annotation system for rice.
• WikiCell: a portal for a unified view of the human transcriptome.
• ESND (under construction): a wiki-based English-to-Chinese Scientific Nomenclature Dictionary.
• iBio (under construction): my biology + my biography, personal biographical wiki for biological researchers, archiving e-books and personal scientific collections.

Wiki extensions

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

• ScienceReward: measure users' contributions, give explicit authorship, and provide a standard practice for rewarding users' contributions in bio-wikis.
• LiMi: literature mining in aid of gene annotation in biological knowledge wikis.
• ColSeq: color molecular sequence according to sequence features.

Funding

ScienceWikis is supported by the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365).