'Gene WIki' announced

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/80128,wikipedia-hosts-human-gene-repository.aspx
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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.
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The full proposal is here:
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175&ct=1

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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
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 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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Received on Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:53:45 UTC