[OWW-Discuss] Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance

Mon Mar 24 14:29:45 EDT 2008

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Mackenzie Cowell <macowell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why doesn't someone start mirroring ncbi and layering a lightweight
> revisioning layer on top of the content?  It could live at ncbi2.org.  Or it
> could be mirrored directly into freebase.com, which already provides those
> tools.
>
Concretely, what do people want to see mirrored?  Are we talking about
a periodic grab of  ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/  something else?
We are interested in the human assemblies (mostly hg18) and the Watson
and Venter reads.

Sasha