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Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.971

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Molecular biology gets wikified

Crowdsourcing comes to biology databases.

Heidi Ledford

The steady march of the crowdsourcing movement has reached molecular biology in force. Earlier this week, bioinformatics experts announced the creation of a Wikipedia-style database that allows anyone to create and amend a repository of complex biochemical pathways.

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    • 23 Jul, 2008
    • Posted by: jeyaganesh rajamanickam

  • As a graduate student at the University of Melbourne whom is writing for the microbe wiki; I think that as far as information goes the more sharing the better. http://www.microbiol.unimelb.edu.au/people/tribe/wiki/index.php/Single_Nucleotide_Polymorphisms

    • 07 Aug, 2008
    • Posted by: mark king