title: A pitfall of wiki solution for biological databases.
abstract: Not a few biologists tend to consider wiki as a solution to manage and reorganize data by a community. However, in its basic functionality, wiki lacks a measure to check data consistency and is not suitable for a database. To circumvent this pitfall, installation of page dependency through in-line page searches is necessary. We also introduce two existing approaches that support in-line queries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5 GSFS CB05, 277-8561 Kashiwa, Japan. arita@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arita
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface