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Another Wiki to Update

Jul 23, 2008

Maastricht University bioinformaticists and UCSF's Bruce Conklin have published a paper in PLoS Biology on a new data wiki for biological pathway information called WikiPathways. "We envision WikiPathways being part of a broader effort to extend curation capacity to larger groups and communities," the authors write. Based on a Wikipedia model, WikiPathways is a collaborative platform that will be used to integrate and exchange data on biological pathways and even includes an embedded graphical pathway editing tool.

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