Genome Biology

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Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins

Barend Mons3,4,1,2*, Michael Ashburner5, Christine Chichester3,2,6, Erik van Mulligen3,1, Marc Weeber3, Johan den Dunnen2, Gert-Jan van Ommen2, Mark Musen7, Matthew Cockerill8, Henning Hermjakob9, Albert Mons3, Abel Packer10, Roberto Pacheco11, Suzanna Lewis5, Alfred Berkeley3, William Melton3, Nickolas Barris3, Jimmy Wales12, Gerard Meijssen4, Erik Moeller12,4, Peter J Roes3, Katy Borner13 and Amos Bairoch6

Author Affiliations

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

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R89 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r89

Published: 28 May 2008

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Additional data file 1:

Detailed technical description of the construction of Knowlets and the Wiki system.

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