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Asked this on twitter and didn't get a great response, so here goes. What are your favorite life science wikis? By wiki I mean a real wiki built using a wiki app, not just a page with links (as I've seen some use the term more broadly). Or, is wikipedia the best?

May 23, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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Wikigenes.org is pretty good, as is OpenWetWare, but perhaps the best work is being done in Wikipedia itself, as part of the project led by Andrew Su at GNF http://biogps.blogspot.com/2009... (who's also on friendfeed). - Mr. Gunn

Thanks! Followed a few links and saw that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... isn't active, which is a shame. Are the wiki projects always undertaken by academic groups? Would it be inappropriate for a company to sponsor? - Mary Canady

Similar thread (a bit aged): http://ff.im/kOnNR . Some bio ones are also in http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki... . - Daniel Mietchen

Clarification of the topic noted. That link I sent was just for background, not meant as an example. Also, GNF is not an academic group, so I'd expect it's entirely appropriate for a company to sponsor a project like this. - Mr. Gunn

EColiWiki: http://ecoliwiki.net/coliped... ; Topsan: http://www.topsan.org/ ; SNPedia: http://www.snpedia.com/index... and of course Andrew Su's stuff .... I don't recall any commercial ones - Deepak Singh

I suspect there will be an eventual explosion of microbial wikis, Subtiliwiki is also rather good http://subtiwiki.uni-goettingen.de/wiki... - Daniel Swan

Check PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... and for related critical discussions see http://dx.doi.org/10... and http://dx.doi.org/10... - joergkurtwegner

Proteopedia is very cool (http://www.proteopedia.org/) and you can also check out (shameless PR) this post - http://rosettadesigngroup.com/blog... - Nir London

THX! I'll likely do a list and a little analysis, 'coz that's what I do...would be interesting to consider how much some of these could grow/benefit if some life science tools companies took interest... - Mary Canady