Linking genes to diseases with a SNPedia-Gene Wiki mashup.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A variety of topic-focused wikis are used in the biomedical sciences to enable the mass-collaborative synthesis and distribution of diverse bodies of knowledge. To address complex problems such as defining the relationships between genes and disease, it is important to bring the knowledge from many different domains together. Here we show how advances in wiki technology and natural language processing can be used to automatically assemble 'meta-wikis' that present integrated views over the data collaboratively created in multiple source wikis.

Results

We produced a semantic meta-wiki called the Gene Wiki+ that automatically mirrors and integrates data from the Gene Wiki and SNPedia. The Gene Wiki+, available at (http://genewikiplus.org/), captures 8,047 distinct g

SUBMITTER: Good BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3337266 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature