Hi Dan,<br> This sounds like something we should be supporting, Lorrie, please could you pen a letter of support? this could either be from you as Managing Director of OWW, or from the SC, <br>cheers, <br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Dan Bolser <<a href="mailto:dan.bolser@gmail.com">dan.bolser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 08/04/2008, Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> "Dan Bolser" <<a href="mailto:dan.bolser@gmail.com">dan.bolser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Dear OWW,<br>
> ><br>
> > Following the recent discussions about the proposal to 'wikify'<br>
> > GenBank, I would like to ask for feedback on our 'PDBWiki' project.<br>
> ><br>
> > PDBWiki is basically an open experiment towards a wiki-style system<br>
> > based on the Protein Data Bank (PDB). There is one page per PDB entry<br>
> > where users can add annotations but editing the source data is<br>
> > currently not allowed.<br>
><br>
><br>
> pdbwiki sounds great!<br>
><br>
> I also just saw this:<br>
> <a href="http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Draft_letter_to_Science_about_wikifying_genome_information" target="_blank">http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Draft_letter_to_Science_about_wikifying_genome_information</a><br>
> Should OWW/pdbwiki sign on to the letter?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>The letter is interesting, and makes some very good points. I think it<br>
would be a shame for OWW not to get on board with this kind of<br>
'awareness' exercise. Currently there are a lot of opinions,<br>
expectations and prejudices surrounding the whole idea of 'community<br>
annotation'. The more scientists who have hands on experience with<br>
wiki (for example), the better we will be able to move towards<br>
improved database systems in biology and bioinformatics.<br>
<br>
For us the idea was to start small and to keep things practical.<br>
PDBWiki simply provides a system whereby free-text community<br>
annotation can be applied to each database entry. It will be<br>
interesting to see how this approach pans out.<br>
<br>
<br>
Dan.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
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