CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, Zhejiang 311400, China, School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China and College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan;42(Database issue):D1222-8. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt926. Epub 2013 Oct 16.
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. Here we present RiceWiki (http://ricewiki.big.ac.cn), a wiki-based, publicly editable and open-content platform for community curation of rice genes. Most existing related biological databases are based on expert curation; with the exponentially exploding volume of rice knowledge and other relevant data, however, expert curation becomes increasingly laborious and time-consuming to keep knowledge up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive, struggling with the flood of data and requiring a large number of people getting involved in rice knowledge curation. Unlike extant relevant databases, RiceWiki features harnessing collective intelligence in community curation of rice genes, quantifying users' contributions in each curated gene and 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. Based on community curation, RiceWiki bears the potential to make it possible to build a rice encyclopedia by and for the scientific community that harnesses community intelligence for collaborative knowledge curation, covers all aspects of biological knowledge and keeps evolving with novel knowledge.
大米是世界上很大一部分人口的最重要主食，也是生物研究作物以及其他相关植物的重要模式生物。在这里，我们介绍 RiceWiki（http://ricewiki.big.ac.cn），这是一个基于维基的、可公开编辑和开放内容的平台，用于社区对水稻基因的管理。大多数现有的相关生物数据库都是基于专家管理的；然而，随着水稻知识和其他相关数据的呈指数级增长，专家管理在不断更新、准确和全面方面变得越来越费力和耗时，难以应对数据的洪流，需要大量人员参与水稻知识的管理。与现有的相关数据库不同，RiceWiki 的特点是利用社区对水稻基因的管理来利用集体智慧，量化每个管理基因中的用户贡献，并为每个基因中的每个贡献者提供明确的作者身份，旨在利用科学界的全部潜力进行水稻知识的管理。基于社区管理，RiceWiki 有可能通过和由科学界来建立一个水稻百科全书，利用社区智能进行协作知识管理，涵盖生物知识的各个方面，并随着新的知识不断发展。
