The people over at 23andme describe a proposed project to develop a gene wiki, built on top of Wikipedia. The idea is to provide a gene annotation resource similar to the Entrez Gene that exploits the collective knowledge of "the community", instead of relying on only a few curators. Of course, such a project will be plagued by questions of accuracy, though a 2005 Nature study suggests Wikipedia comes close to the accuracy of Encyclopedia Britannica (not that the NCBI curated databases are entirely accurate in the first place). It will be very interesting to see how this project develops.
For reference, here's the link to the PLoS Biology paper proposing this project.
[Via Coturnix]
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