Tag: PLoS Biology

Gene Wiki?

7 July, 2008 (20:00) | Genomics Research, Genomics Resource News | By: Trey

ResearchBlogging.org PLoS Biology has an article out today entitled “A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function.” The article describes the authors attempts to create a comprehensive gene wiki of gene functions by ’seeding’ Wikipedia with a foundation of ’stub’ articles with information from existing databases (such as Entrez Gene). This foundation would then be built upon in Wikipedia fashion by community editing.

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