[OWW-Discuss] Announcing PDBWiki

[John Cumbers]

Hi Dan,
 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,
cheers,
John

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/04/2008, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>  > "Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  > 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.
>  >
>  >
>  >     pdbwiki sounds great!
>  >
>  >     I also just saw this:
>  >
> http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Draft_letter_to_Science_about_wikifying_genome_information
>  >     Should OWW/pdbwiki sign on to the letter?
>
>
> The letter is interesting, and makes some very good points. I think it
>  would be a shame for OWW not to get on board with this kind of
>  'awareness' exercise. Currently there are a lot of opinions,
>  expectations and prejudices surrounding the whole idea of 'community
>  annotation'. The more scientists who have hands on experience with
>  wiki (for example), the better we will be able to move towards
>  improved database systems in biology and bioinformatics.
>
>  For us the idea was to start small and to keep things practical.
>  PDBWiki simply provides a system whereby free-text community
>  annotation can be applied to each database entry. It will be
>  interesting to see how this approach pans out.
>
>
>  Dan.
>
>
>
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