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'''RiceWiki''', a sub-project of [http://www.sciencewikis.org ScienceWikis], is '''a publicly editable, open-content and collaborative rice knowledge resource''', viz., a community-based platform of rice (''Oryza sativa'') gene annotations. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki '''harnesses collective intelligence''' to collect, edit and annotate information about rice, '''quantifies users' contributions''' in each annotated gene, and '''provides explicit authorship''' for each contributor to encourage more participation from the whole scientific community. Currently, it contains a total of [[:Category:Genes |66,269]] rice genes from ''O. sativa Japonica'' and ''Indica''.
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'''RiceWiki''', a sub-project of [http://www.sciencewikis.org ScienceWikis], is '''a publicly editable, open-content and collaborative rice knowledge resource''', viz., a community-based platform of rice (''Oryza sativa'') gene annotations. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki '''harnesses collective intelligence''' to collect, edit and annotate information about rice, '''quantifies users' contributions''' in each annotated gene, and '''provides explicit authorship''' for each contributor to encourage more participation from the whole scientific community.

Revision as of 18:31, 15 July 2012

RiceWiki, a sub-project of ScienceWikis, is a publicly editable, open-content and collaborative rice knowledge resource, viz., a community-based platform of rice (Oryza sativa) gene annotations. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki harnesses collective intelligence to collect, edit and annotate information about rice, quantifies users' contributions in each annotated gene, and provides explicit authorship for each contributor to encourage more participation from the whole scientific community.