Wiki's


Wiki's have become popular with the establisment of the Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia which can be editted by anybody. For scholar used to the rigid structure of editors and peer review perhaps a touch too much freedom. The scholarly wikipedia is the Scholarpedia.

Wiki Software is becoming a popular tool to share and collaborate in a number of fields.

 

Openwetware http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

A controlled wiki for laboratory protocols.

 

Fluwikie http://www.fluwikie.com/

A controlled wiki with information to help communities prepare for an outbreak of influenza

 

Ganfyd http://ganfyd.org/

Ganfyd, a general medical wiki, stands for “get a note from your doctor”. An online collaborative general medical reference that is edited by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts.

 

Radiation oncology http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Radiation_Oncology

A wikibook on radiation oncology

 

Jurispedia http://www.jurispedia.org/

A Wiki type portal, JurisPedia is an encyclopaedic project of academic initiative devoted to worldwide law, legal and political sciences. Its objective is to create a universal legal encyclopedia in multiple languages.

 

PubDrug wiki http://www.smbrower.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

PubDrug was founded November 8, 2006, in an effort to develop a copyright-free, royalty-free, full-text drug resource. PubDrug's intended audience includes all health practitioners, researchers, informaticians, and the general public.

 

Being There http://www.being-here.net/

Zie voor meer info http://www.informatieprofessional.nl/nieuws/index.php?op=details&id=2534#

 

Wiki Professional http://www.wikiprofessional.info/

With the first database wiki proteins being functional.

 

AskDrWiki http://askdrwiki.com/

Is produced by the Cleveland Clinica it is a good free source of x-rays, and other general medical information

 

WiserWiki http://www.wiserwiki.com/

Medical wiki from Elsevier.

 

Rosaceae http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rosacea

This is a wikibook about Rosaceae, a skin disease.

 

Being-there http://www.being-here.net/

A wiki environment for the PhD thesis of Caroline Nevejan.

 

Useful chemistry http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/

A wiki project in chemistry led by the Bradley Laboratory at Drexel University.

 

Chempedia http://chempedia.com/

Chempedia is the free and continuously-updated online chemical encyclopedia. Each Compound Monograph gives information about the structure, uses, history, and significance of a chemical compound.

 

Ecolwiki http://ecoliwiki.net/

The EcoliWiki is a subsystem of EcoliHub's for community annotation. The goal for EcoliWiki is to generate community-based pages about everything related to E. coli K-12, its phages, plasmids, and mobile genetic elements.

 

Wikipathways http://www.wikipathways.org/

WikiPathways is an open, collaborative platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways. More info at Rico et al. 2008

 

 

MedPedia http://www.medpedia.com/

Medpedia is the collaborative project to collect the best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available worldwide. Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, the University of Michigan Medical School and dozens of health organizations around the world are contributing to The Medpedia Project in various ways. (To be lauched later 2008)

 

WikiPathWays http://www.wikipathways.org/ 

http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/news-press/bioinformatics-news/detail/article/wikipathways-new-features-for-a-growing-community/

more info WikiPathways: building research communities on biological pathways. Kelder T, van Iersel MP, Hanspers K, Kutmon M, Conklin BR, Evelo CT, Pico AR Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Nov 16

 

 

Lists of medical wiki's

http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/

http://scienceroll.com/2007/03/27/medical-wikis-the-future-of-medicine/

 

 

genetics wiki's http://scienceroll.com/2007/05/25/genetic-wikis/

 

 

 


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