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'Editathon' Looks to Improve Wikipedia for Computational Biology

Jul 24, 2017
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Neil Versel
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PRAGUE (GenomeWeb) – Wikipedia, the free online information resource that is the default jumping-off point for so many internet research expeditions, is notorious for being unreliable, error-prone, and occasionally gamed by pranksters, as comedian Stephen Colbert hilariously demonstrated back in 2006.

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