Wikipedia as a resource for Computational Biology training Education track – ISMB 2011 Alex 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 importance _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 Logan Magnus Manske Manuel Corpas U+003F Hodja Nasreddin Jebus989 Duncan.Hull Lenov Plindenbaum