ScienceWikis:Purpose

• Build professional academic wikis for biological knowledge integration (such as, wiki-based gene annotation system), different from general wiki (such as, Wikipedia).

• Establish next-generation resources, viz., reference sequence wikis for specific species.

• Measure users' contributions, give explicit authorship and provide a standard practice to reward community-curated efforts in bio-wikis (viz., a wiki-based extension, named AuthorReward).

• Provide a central archive of quantitative contributions and citations (delivered by AuthorReward) made by different users in different bio-wikis.

• Develop wiki extensions to facilitate biological content creation and editing, data visualization, exchange and sharing.