PDBWiki: added value through community annotation of the Protein Data Bank.

ABSTRACT: The success of community projects such as Wikipedia has recently prompted a discussion about the applicability of such tools in the life sciences. Currently, there are several such 'science-wikis' that aim to collect specialist knowledge from the community into centralized resources. However, there is no consensus about how to achieve this goal. For example, it is not clear how to best integrate data from established, centralized databases with that provided by 'community annotation'. We created PDBWiki, a scientific wiki for the community annotation of protein structures. The wiki consists of one structured page for each entry in the the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and allows the user to attach categorized comments to the entries. Additionally, each page includes a user editable list of cross

SUBMITTER: Stehr H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2911844 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature