TY - JOUR
T1 - The Zebrafish GenomeWiki
T2 - A crowdsourcing approach to connect the long tail for zebrafish gene annotation
AU - Singh, Meghna
AU - Bhartiya, Deeksha
AU - Maini, Jayant
AU - Sharma, Meenakshi
AU - Singh, Angom Ramcharan
AU - Kadarkaraisamy, Subburaj
AU - Rana, Rajiv
AU - Sabharwal, Ankit
AU - Nanda, Srishti
AU - Ramachandran, Aravindhakshan
AU - Mittal, Ashish
AU - Kapoor, Shruti
AU - Sehgal, Paras
AU - Asad, Zainab
AU - Kaushik, Kriti
AU - Vellarikkal, Shamsudheen Karuthedath
AU - Jagga, Divya
AU - Muthuswami, Muthulakshmi
AU - Chauhan, Rajendra K.
AU - Leonard, Elvin
AU - Priyadarshini, Ruby
AU - Halimani, Mahantappa
AU - Malhotra, Sunny
AU - Patowary, Ashok
AU - Vishwakarma, Harinder
AU - Joshi, Prateek
AU - Bhardwaj, Vivek
AU - Bhaumik, Arijit
AU - Bhatt, Bharat
AU - Jha, Aamod
AU - Kumar, Aalok
AU - Budakoti, Prerna
AU - Lalwani, Mukesh Kumar
AU - Meli, Rajeshwari
AU - Jalali, Saakshi
AU - Joshi, Kandarp
AU - Pal, Koustav
AU - Dhiman, Heena
AU - Laddha, Saurabh V.
AU - Jadhav, Vaibhav
AU - Singh, Naresh
AU - Pandey, Vikas
AU - Sachidanandan, Chetana
AU - Ekker, Stephen C.
AU - Klee, Eric W.
AU - Scaria, Vinod
AU - Sivasubbu, Sridhar
N1 - Funding Information:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (BSC0122, MLP1202 to V.S. and S.S.). Funding for open access charge: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the laboratory members for valuable inputs and encouragement. They thank the members of zebrafish community for freely sharing their data. They also thank Stephanie Westcot and Victoria Bedell for critical comments on the manuscript. A.P., M.L., D.B., M.S., K.K., S.K. and Z.A. acknowledge fellowships from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. A.R. acknowledges the fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India. J.M., R.M. and M.S. conceptualized the idea. D.B., K.P., K.J., H.D. and S.J. are responsible for backend and system maintenance.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2014/2/26
Y1 - 2014/2/26
N2 - A large repertoire of gene-centric data has been generated in the field of zebrafish biology. Although the bulk of these data are available in the public domain, most of them are not readily accessible or available in nonstandard formats. One major challenge is to unify and integrate these widely scattered data sources. We tested the hypothesis that active community participation could be a viable option to address this challenge. We present here our approach to create standards for assimilation and sharing of information and a system of open standards for database intercommunication. We have attempted to address this challenge by creating a community-centric solution for zebrafish gene annotation. The Zebrafish GenomeWiki is a 'wiki'-based resource, which aims to provide an altruistic shared environment for collective annotation of the zebrafish genes. The Zebrafish GenomeWiki has features that enable users to comment, annotate, edit and rate this gene-centric information. The credits for contributions can be tracked through a transparent microattribution system. In contrast to other wikis, the Zebrafish GenomeWiki is a 'structured wiki' or rather a 'semantic wiki'. The Zebrafish GenomeWiki implements a semantically linked data structure, which in the future would be amenable to semantic search.
AB - A large repertoire of gene-centric data has been generated in the field of zebrafish biology. Although the bulk of these data are available in the public domain, most of them are not readily accessible or available in nonstandard formats. One major challenge is to unify and integrate these widely scattered data sources. We tested the hypothesis that active community participation could be a viable option to address this challenge. We present here our approach to create standards for assimilation and sharing of information and a system of open standards for database intercommunication. We have attempted to address this challenge by creating a community-centric solution for zebrafish gene annotation. The Zebrafish GenomeWiki is a 'wiki'-based resource, which aims to provide an altruistic shared environment for collective annotation of the zebrafish genes. The Zebrafish GenomeWiki has features that enable users to comment, annotate, edit and rate this gene-centric information. The credits for contributions can be tracked through a transparent microattribution system. In contrast to other wikis, the Zebrafish GenomeWiki is a 'structured wiki' or rather a 'semantic wiki'. The Zebrafish GenomeWiki implements a semantically linked data structure, which in the future would be amenable to semantic search.
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U2 - 10.1093/database/bau011
DO - 10.1093/database/bau011
M3 - Article
C2 - 24578356
AN - SCOPUS:84906562418
SN - 1758-0463
VL - 2014
JO - Database
JF - Database
M1 - bau011
ER -