by Andrew Su | Sep 15, 2009 | BioGPS, community intelligence, Gene Wiki, long tail, usage stats
Our second paper on the Gene Wiki ijkey=70heWcVDzEvSzl5&keytype;=ref “>was published online today in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. It will also be included in the 2010 Database issue in January. From the concluding paragraph of the introduction:Here, we...
by Andrew Su | Sep 10, 2009 | Gene Wiki
Inspired by a neat analysis of online fungi resources by Rod Page, I decided to do a similar comparison of Gene Wiki pages. Here’s the take home message: in terms of online gene annotation resources, Gene Cards is the most common top-ranked resource, followed...
by Andrew Su | Jun 5, 2009 | community intelligence, Gene Wiki
The Gene Wiki effort leverages the idea of “community intelligence” (like other similar projects such as WikiPathways, WikiProteins, and WikiGenes). It creates a two-way flow of gene annotation information in which the community of users is also the...
by Andrew Su | Apr 28, 2009 | Gene Wiki
It’s been over a year since we created the Gene Wiki, and nine months since the effort was published. We previously blogged about the vision as it relates to the Long Tail, and many others have written about the effort too.So one year later, how does one...
by Andrew Su | Sep 23, 2008 | BioGPS, Gene Wiki, symatlas
As we develop BioGPS, many people have asked, why develop another gene portal? With all the already-existing websites that display gene annotation, where does BioGPS fit into this crowded landscape?I think this question begs a closer look at why there are so many gene...
by Andrew Su | Aug 15, 2008 | Gene Wiki, long tail
I guess many others have blogged about it, and now that we have a blog of our own, seems like we should join the crowd. Recently, we published a paper in PLoS Biology describing an effort we call the Gene Wiki. The Gene Wiki is an informal collection of Wikipedia...
