The Gene Wiki: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation Export

@article{citeulike:5788821, abstract = {Annotating the function of all human genes is a critical, yet formidable, challenge. Current gene annotation efforts focus on centralized curation resources, but it is increasingly clear that this approach does not scale with the rapid growth of the biomedical literature. The Gene Wiki utilizes an alternative and complementary model based on the principle of community intelligence. Directly integrated within the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the goal of this effort is to build a gene-specific review article for every gene in the human genome, where each article is collaboratively written, continuously updated and community reviewed. Previously, we described the creation of Gene Wiki stubs' for approximately 9000 human genes. Here, we describe ongoing systematic improvements to these articles to increase their utility. Moreover, we retrospectively examine the community usage and improvement of the Gene Wiki, providing evidence of a critical mass of users and editors. Gene Wiki articles are freely accessible within the Wikipedia web site, and additional links and information are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene\_Wiki. 10.1093/nar/gkp760}, author = {Huss, Jon W. and Lindenbaum, Pierre and Martone, Michael and Roberts, Donabel and Pizarro, Angel and Valafar, Faramarz and Hogenesch, John B. and Su, Andrew I.}, citeulike-article-id = {5788821}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp760}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/gkp760/.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/gkp760/.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19755503}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19755503}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1093/nar/gkp760}, issn = {1362-4962}, journal = {Nucl. Acids Res.}, keywords = {annotation, gene, wiki}, month = {September}, pages = {gkp760+}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 14:51:35}, priority = {5}, title = {The Gene Wiki: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp760}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5788821 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5788821 N2 - Annotating the function of all human genes is a critical, yet formidable, challenge. Current gene annotation efforts focus on centralized curation resources, but it is increasingly clear that this approach does not scale with the rapid growth of the biomedical literature. The Gene Wiki utilizes an alternative and complementary model based on the principle of community intelligence. Directly integrated within the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the goal of this effort is to build a gene-specific review article for every gene in the human genome, where each article is collaboratively written, continuously updated and community reviewed. Previously, we described the creation of Gene Wiki stubs' for approximately 9000 human genes. Here, we describe ongoing systematic improvements to these articles to increase their utility. Moreover, we retrospectively examine the community usage and improvement of the Gene Wiki, providing evidence of a critical mass of users and editors. Gene Wiki articles are freely accessible within the Wikipedia web site, and additional links and information are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki. 10.1093/nar/gkp760 JF - Nucl. Acids Res. SN - 1362-4962 TI - The Gene Wiki: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation SP - gkp760 KW - annotation KW - gene KW - wiki AU - Huss, Jon AU - Lindenbaum, Pierre AU - Martone, Michael AU - Roberts, Donabel AU - Pizarro, Angel AU - Valafar, Faramarz AU - Hogenesch, John AU - Su, Andrew PY - 2009/09/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp760 ER -