title: EcoliWiki: a wiki-based community resource for Escherichia coli.
abstract: EcoliWiki is the community annotation component of the PortEco (http://porteco.org; formerly EcoliHub) project, an online data resource that integrates information on laboratory strains of Escherichia coli, its phages, plasmids and mobile genetic elements. As one of the early adopters of the wiki approach to model organism databases, EcoliWiki was designed to not only facilitate community-driven sharing of biological knowledge about E. coli as a model organism, but also to be interoperable with other data resources. EcoliWiki content currently covers genes from five laboratory E. coli strains, 21 bacteriophage genomes, F plasmid and eight transposons. EcoliWiki integrates the Mediawiki wiki platform with other open-source software tools and in-house software development to extend how wikis can be used for model organism databases. EcoliWiki can be accessed online at http://ecoliwiki.net.
authors: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas Agrilife Research, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors: Brenley K
authors: BK
authors: McIntosh
authors: Daniel P
authors: DP
authors: Renfro
authors: Gwendowlyn S
authors: GS
authors: Knapp
authors: Chanchala R
authors: CR
authors: Lairikyengbam
authors: Nathan M
authors: NM
authors: Liles
authors: Lili
authors: L
authors: Niu
authors: Amanda M
authors: AM
authors: Supak
authors: Anand
authors: A
authors: Venkatraman
authors: Adrienne E
authors: AE
authors: Zweifel
authors: Deborah A
authors: DA
authors: Siegele
authors: James C
authors: JC
authors: Hu
mesh_terms: D003090:Coliphages / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D020407:Internet; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration