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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.

Sub-projects

Biological knowledge wikis

Build biological wikis for community curation of immense knowledge.

In service

• RiceWiki: a community-curated resource of rice knowledge.
• WikiCell: a portal for a unified view of the human transcriptome.
• ESND: a wiki-based English-to-Chinese Scientific Nomenclature Dictionary.

Under construction

• FishWiki: a wiki-based community resource for carp.
• PigWiki: a wiki-based community resource for pig.
• DateWiki: a wiki-based community resource for date palm.
• VirusWiki: a wiki-based community resource for virus.
• iBio: my biology + my biography, a personal biographical wiki for researchers, archiving personal scientific collections.

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.