Flórez Lope A, Roppel Sebastian F, Schmeisky Arne G, Lammers Christoph R, Stülke Jörg
Department of General Microbiology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Database (Oxford). 2009;2009:bap012. doi: 10.1093/database/bap012. Epub 2009 Sep 17.
Bacillus subtilis is the model organism for Gram-positive bacteria, with a large amount of publications on all aspects of its biology. To facilitate genome annotation and the collection of comprehensive information on B. subtilis, we created SubtiWiki as a community-oriented annotation tool for information retrieval and continuous maintenance. The wiki is focused on the needs and requirements of scientists doing experimental work. This has implications for the design of the interface and for the layout of the individual pages. The pages can be accessed primarily by the gene designations. All pages have a similar flexible structure and provide links to related gene pages in SubtiWiki or to information in the World Wide Web. Each page gives comprehensive information on the gene, the encoded protein or RNA as well as information related to the current investigation of the gene/protein. The wiki has been seeded with information from key publications and from the most relevant general and B. subtilis-specific databases. We think that SubtiWiki might serve as an example for other scientific wikis that are devoted to the genes and proteins of one organism.Database URL: The wiki can be accessed at http://subtiwiki.uni-goettingen.de/
枯草芽孢杆菌是革兰氏阳性菌的模式生物，关于其生物学各个方面已有大量出版物。为便于进行基因组注释并收集有关枯草芽孢杆菌的全面信息，我们创建了SubtiWiki，作为一个面向社区的注释工具，用于信息检索和持续维护。该维基专注于从事实验工作的科学家的需求。这对界面设计和各个页面的布局都有影响。页面主要可通过基因名称访问。所有页面都具有类似的灵活结构，并提供指向SubtiWiki中相关基因页面或万维网信息的链接。每个页面都提供有关基因、编码的蛋白质或RNA的全面信息，以及与该基因/蛋白质当前研究相关的信息。该维基已植入来自关键出版物以及最相关的通用和枯草芽孢杆菌特定数据库的信息。我们认为SubtiWiki可能为其他致力于某一生物体基因和蛋白质的科学维基提供范例。数据库网址：可通过http://subtiwiki.uni-goettingen.de/访问该维基。
