Wikipedia as a resource for Computational Biology training

Education track – ISMB 2011Alex Bateman

Wikipedia is

• The worlds largest online encyclopedia• Part of the Wikimedia family

Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia is not

• A training manual• But Wikiversity is!• Not much relevant content

Page views per month

• DNA microarray 32,664• Dynamic programming 23,239• Hidden Markov model 22,084• Phylogenetic tree 21,417• BLAST 15,114• Systems biology 10,801• Computational Biology 4,968• Smith-Waterman algorithm 1,008

WikiProject Computational Biology

• Goal is to improve Computational Biology content in Wikipedia

• Initial efforts focused on:– identifying relevant articles– Assessing quality and importancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology

How much content in WP?

What needs work?

Plenty to do

• Sign up to participants list• Pick an article to improve• Finding more articles and assessment• Adding materials to Wikimedia Commons

Thanks to …

Darren LoganMagnusManske

Manuel Corpas

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