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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 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.