[OWW-Discuss] Announcing PDBWiki

[Dan Bolser]

Dear OWW,

Following the recent discussions about the proposal to 'wikify'
GenBank, I would like to ask for feedback on our 'PDBWiki' project.

PDBWiki is basically an open experiment towards a wiki-style system
based on the Protein Data Bank (PDB). There is one page per PDB entry
where users can add annotations but editing the source data is
currently not allowed.

The idea is to have a very simple but functional system that can serve
as a bugtracker, discussion forum and community annotation platform
for PDB structures.

See:
http://pdbwiki.org


We are updating the site with the PDB every week. One of the ideas
that we are developing is to implement 'error codes' using the
MediaWiki category system. This mechanism would provide a way of
tracking annotations, and potentially feeding back user contributed
data into the PDB.

You can see an example of a putative error category here:

http://pdbwiki.org/index.php/Category:PDB_format_inconsistency


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Dan.