title: RiceWiki: a wiki-based database for community curation of rice genes.
abstract: Rice is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population and also a key model organism for biological studies of crops as well as other related plants. Here we present RiceWiki (http://ricewiki.big.ac.cn), a wiki-based, publicly editable and open-content platform for community curation of rice genes. Most existing related biological databases are based on expert curation; with the exponentially exploding volume of rice knowledge and other relevant data, however, expert curation becomes increasingly laborious and time-consuming to keep knowledge up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive, struggling with the flood of data and requiring a large number of people getting involved in rice knowledge curation. Unlike extant relevant databases, RiceWiki features harnessing collective intelligence in community curation of rice genes, quantifying users' contributions in each curated gene and providing explicit authorship for each contributor in any given gene, with the aim to exploit the full potential of the scientific community for rice knowledge curation. Based on community curation, RiceWiki bears the potential to make it possible to build a rice encyclopedia by and for the scientific community that harnesses community intelligence for collaborative knowledge curation, covers all aspects of biological knowledge and keeps evolving with novel knowledge.
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, Zhejiang 311400, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China and College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
authors.forename: Zhang
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jian
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authors.lastname: Sang
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authors.lastname: Ma
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authors.lastname: Wu
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authors.forename: Jingfa
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authors.lastname: Xiao
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authors.lastname: Dai
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mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D017343:Genes, Plant; D020407:Internet; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*