- From: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:51:06 -0400
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- CC: w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
What about DBpedia (http://dbpedia.org)? -Kei Dan Brickley wrote: > > 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 > > -- > http://danbri.org/ >
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