Hi, I agree, a wiki would be great way for sharing knowledge as it would allow experts of a protein, of a gene to freely add, modify and share annotations. But I fear it could also be a problem for knowledge discovery because a wiki is not a "semantic web" source of information. Just see the "problem" existing with the abstracts of pubmed: there are many papers[1] about softwares trying to extract and digest the knowledge contained in the abstracts. I feel something like a WIKI but based on semantic web / RDF would be better. In a perfect world, publishers should provide a RDF version of the abstract describing the content of the article. However, some publishers already try to add RDF in the electronic version of the papers: I remember a message on this list from Dr Cockerill (BioMed Central) who suggested to look at the source of http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/140 (an information about the licence is embedded in the HTML, but you may think about other data...).
Pierre Lindenbaum PhD. [1] a recent review: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg1768 --- Alan Ruttenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > Here's an opportunity for a swiki. > > -Alan > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: "Robison, Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: February 6, 2006 10:31:32 AM EST > > Subject: Nature: A call for a public gene Wiki > > > > > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7076/full/439534a.html > > > > > > Keith Robison, Ph.D. > > Sr Scientist II, Computational Biology > > Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc > > 350 Massachusetts Avenue > > Cambridge MA 02139 ___________________________________________________________________________ Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com