by ginger | Oct 8, 2016 | collective wisdom, community intelligence, conference, Gene Wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most widely used and freely accessible knowledgebases. As one of the largest, crowdsourced resources, many researchers are engaged in making the Wikimedia platform more useful in scientific research—including researchers from our lab here at...
by Tim Putman | Apr 5, 2016 | Gene Wiki, hackathon, proposal, Wikidata
Proposal summary: To create a model organism database web application, using Wikidata as the backend, that the microbial research community can use to load an organism and view its taxonomic information as well as genome, gene and functional annotations all in one...
by ginger | Jan 7, 2016 | Gene Wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
2015 was a busy year for the Gene Wiki/Wikidata team—a naturally collaborative and evolving group of researchers from our lab, UCLA, the University of Maryland, Micelio, and more. The team imported about 132 thousand genes (59,530 human, 73,130 mouse) from NCBI into...
by bgood | Oct 21, 2015 | Gene Wiki, lua, sulab, Wikidata, wikipedia
The Gene Wiki team has been hard at work filling wikidata with useful content about genes, diseases, and drugs using the new and improved ProteinBoxBot. Now, we are starting to see the fruits of this labor in the context of Wikipedia. Infobox for ARF6, rendered...
by Sebastian Burgstaller | Sep 9, 2015 | biocuration, code, community intelligence, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Introduction: Sulab has proven it’s love for Wikipedia by creating the GeneWiki[1]. Wikipedia is primarily a collection of free-text pages which also can contain some structured data in the form of infoboxes. In order to increase the abilities of handling and...
