Biowiki
The term biowiki has occasionally been used to describe a wiki for exchanging information AbOUT bioinformatics or computational biology.
For example, the journal Nature has run a number of news features and letters on the growth of wikis in biology.
Several examples of what can constitute a biowiki are outlined below.
Rfam's use of Wikipedia
The Rfam database has been downloading Wikipedia pages that describe their noncoding RNA families and displaying them on the Rfam website. For example, the Rfam page for 5S ribosomal RNA actually takes its content from the Wikipedia page on 5S ribosomal RNA.
Rfam describes their procedure for doing this here.
biowiki.org
The bioinformatics lab of Ian Holmes at UC Berkeley has been using biowiki.org as an online lab notebook and research wiki since 2004; the website has been ACTIVE since 2000. The site is a distribution point for the lab's open source software for computational genomics and also contains sections on original algorithmic research in bioinformatics and phylogenetics. A detailed description of the sort of content that can be found on the site is here.
Additionally, the site has been maintaining their own list of biowikis.
mybio.net
http://mybio.net/biowiki/Main_Page
UCSC genome wiki
Arguably, the wiki for the UCSC genome browser qualifies:
http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Biowiki.NET
Biowiki.NET is the openfree portal system for biology. It is from bioinformatics field to network various biological information, database, algorithms and publications. It aims to construct an "open hypertext" (Wikipedia is one of them) knowledge system. Biowiki is also a program that is based on Mediawiki. It can be downloaded from Biowiki.NET
External links
- Biowiki.net Jong Bhak's biowiki network site in KOBIC, Korea.
- Biowiki.org Ian Holmes' biowiki site in Berkeley.
- BioDirectory's BioWiki Oxford Informatics' wiki for Life Science Researcher's tools, database and web resources