by ginger | Jan 22, 2015 | Gene Wiki, open science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia
Wikipedia is probably the most current, extensive, and accessible knowledge base available. Currently, there are over 10,000 Wikipedia entries for human genes of interest thanks to the Gene Wiki project and the contributions of the dedicated and altruistic Wikipedia...
by ginger | Jul 2, 2014 | crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia, wisdom of the crowd, work
Professor Murray Jennex is an information systems whiz. He would start his classes on Information Security and Decision Support Systems with an open and frank discussion on relevant current affairs. During one of these discussions he raised a question regarding the...
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 | Jun 8, 2013 | collective intelligence, community-annotation, crowdsourcing, database, genomics, wiki, wikipedia
Model organism databases are great. They span a spectrum of model organisms as diverse as mouse, rat, fly, worm, zebrafish, yeast, and E. coli. And they fulfill key roles for their respective communities, from warehousing key genomic data, to providing query and...
by eclarke | Apr 30, 2012 | Gene Wiki, genewiki+, mashup, semantic web, semantic wikipedia, SPARQL, wiki, wikipedia
Our presentation at the Semantic MediaWiki Conference was a smashing hit! I discussed the software we developed to create GeneWiki+, which we’ve christened mwsync. Mwsync is a cool little Java framework that makes it easy to maintain a live mirror of any...
by Andrew Su | Feb 6, 2012 | Gene Wiki, publication, semantic web, text-mining, wikipedia
As the end of 2011 was a busy time grant-writing, I didn’t get an opportunity to highlight several recent publications that came out from our lab. Better late than never: Hu Y, Galkin AV, Wu C, Reddy V, Su AI (2011) CAFET Algorithm Reveals Wnt/PCP Signature in...
