rice is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population and also a key model organism for biological studies of crops as well as other related plants. However,most rice-related biol...
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rice is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population and also a key model organism for biological studies of crops as well as other related plants. However,most rice-related biological databases are based on expert curation;with the exponentially exploding volume of rice knowledge and other relevant data,expert curation becomes increasingly laborious and time-consuming to keep knowledge up-to-date,accurate and comprehensive,struggling with the flood of data and inevitably requiring a large number of people getting involved in rice knowledge curation. Here we present ricewiki(http://***),a wiki-based,publicly editable,and open-content platform for communitycuration of rice *** extant relevant databases, ricewiki features(1) harnessing collective intelligence in communitycuration of ricegenes,(2) quantifying users' contributions in each curated gene,and(3) providing explicit authorship for each contributor in any given gene,with the aim to exploit the full potential of the scientific community for rice knowledge curation.A live demo for illustrating these features is the rice semidwarfing gene,which was curated collaboratively by multiple users(http://***/***/ Os01g0883800). Due to significant importance of rice,ricewiki serves as a critical community-curated knowledgebase for the rice research *** the growing volume of rice-related data and contrastingly the small number of expert curators working on rice,ricewiki bears the potential to make it possible to build a rice encyclopedia by and for the scientific community, which harnesses collective intelligence for collaborative knowledge curation,covers all aspects of biological knowledge,and keeps evolving with novel knowledge.
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