http://www.itnews.com.au/News/80128,wikipedia-hosts-human-gene-repository.aspx
[[
U.S. scientists are developing a “Gene Wiki” with the aim of fostering a
flexible, organic archive of human genetic information.
The project exists within Wikipedia, and is expected to speed up the
process of deciphering genome sequences.
According to Andrew Su, whose report of the project appears this week in
the scientific journal PLoS Biology, the researchers were emboldened to
develop the Wiki by Wikipedia’s “Be Bold” ethos.
]]
The full proposal is here:
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175&ct=1
[[
A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function
Jon W. Huss III, Camilo Orozco, James Goodale, Chunlei Wu, Serge
Batalov, Tim J. Vickers, Faramarz Valafar, Andrew I. Su*
Citation: Huss III JW, Orozco C, Goodale J, Wu C, Batalov S, et al.
(2008) A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function. PLoS Biol
6(7): e175 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175
Published: July 8, 2008
]]
From a quick skim I don't see mention of W3C, RDF, Semantic Web etc ---
I was wondering if anyone here was involved and had contacts, since
there's doubtless some overlap in interests and approach. In particular
I was thinking that the Semantic MediaWiki extensions
(http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) might be useful
in bridging this work to other datasets.
thinking out loud,
Dan
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http://danbri.org/
