Software
Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins
1 Erasmus Medical Centre, Department of Medical Informatics, Dr. Molewaterplein 40/50, NL-3015 GE Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2 Department of Human Genetics, Centre for Medical Systems Biology, Leiden University Medical Centre, 2300 RC Leiden NL, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC Leiden, the Netherlands
3 Knewco Inc., Fallsgrove Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
4 Open Progress Foundation, Olstgracht, 1315 BH AlmereAlmere, the Netherlands
5 The GO consortium, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, and Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom; and Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
6 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Swiss-Prot Group and Department of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Geneva, CMU - Rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
7 Stanford Medical Informatics, NCBO, Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA
8 BioMed Central, Cleveland Street, London W1T 4LB, UK
9 EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, IntAct database, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
10 SciELO, BIREME/PAHO/WHO, Rua Botucatu, 862, Vila Clementino 04023-901, São Paulo SP, Brazil
11 Istituto Stela, Rua Prof. Ayrton Roberto de Oliveira, 32, 7° andar Itacorubi, Florianópolis-SC, 88034-050, Brazil
12 The WikiMedia Foundation, San Francisco, CA 94107-8350, USA
13 Indiana University, S. Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405-7000, USA
Genome Biology 2008, 9:R89 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r89
Published: 28 May 2008Abstract
WikiProteins enables community annotation in a Wiki-based system. Extracts of major data sources have been fused into an editable environment that links out to the original sources. Data from community edits create automatic copies of the original data. Semantic technology captures concepts co-occurring in one sentence and thus potential factual statements. In addition, indirect associations between concepts have been calculated. We call on a 'million minds' to annotate a 'million concepts' and to collect facts from the literature with the reward of collaborative knowledge discovery. The system is available for beta testing at http://www.wikiprofessional.org webcite.
