by Andrew Su | Jul 7, 2017 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, proposal, Wikidata
The Gene Wiki project has been generously funded by the National Institutes for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since 2009. As the second funding period is wrapping up early next year, it was time to once again look forward and think about our vision for the next 4-5...
by Andrew Su | Sep 5, 2013 | citizen science, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, mark2cure
This is the fifth and final blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Crowdsourcing is all about motivating large groups of individuals to collaboratively achieve some shared vision. For example, the Wikipedia crowd primarily uses...
by Andrew Su | Aug 6, 2013 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal
This is the fourth blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Our plans to build a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) is the one that we discussed most openly as we were drafting our proposal. So you should feel free to read our...
by Andrew Su | Aug 1, 2013 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal
This is the third blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. review of essay writing services As a crowdsourcing initiative, the Gene Wiki project is entirely based on community contributions and participation. One key early decision we made...
by Andrew Su | Jul 31, 2013 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, wikipedia
This is the second blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. The first funding period focused on crowdsourcing knowledge on human genes in Wikipedia. And that effort has largely been successful. The ~10,000 gene articles are collectively...
by Andrew Su | Jul 30, 2013 | BioGPS, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH, usage stats
This is the first blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. First, let’s recap a bit of history on our Gene Wiki project. We originally proposed the Gene Wiki as one aim of our NIH grant to develop BioGPS, an crowdsourced online portal...
