[OWW-Discuss] Announcing PDBWiki

[Lorrie LeJeune]

I agree with Jason. It makes more sense to add the OWW SC to the existing
list of supporters on the letter than to draft a new one.
--Lorrie


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:

> Noticed that they've already got a letter up here:
>
> http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/Draft_letter_to_Science_about_wikifying_genome_information
>
> Maybe we could bring it up at the SC meeting and if people are OK with
> it, the SC could sign off on the letter above (they are submitting it
> on friday).  I personally think that it has more weight if it's signed
> by a volunteer group of scientists that collaborate and share on a
> wiki, rather than from folks running a wiki ;)
>
> thanks,
> jason
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:46 PM, John Cumbers <johncumbers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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