WikiGenomes: an open web application for community consumption and curation of gene annotation data in Wikidata

• DOI: 10.1093/database/bax025
• Publication Date: 2017-03-08T15:11:02Z
• Authors: Tim E. Putman; Sebastien Lelong; Sebastian Burgsta...; Andra Waagmeester; Colin Diesh; Nathan Dunn; Monica Munoz-Torres; Gregory S. Stupp; Chunlei Wu; Andrew I. Su; Benjamin M. Good
• Keywords: Consumption

With the advancement of genome-sequencing technologies, new genomes are being sequenced daily. Although these sequences deposited in publicly available data warehouses, their functional and genomic annotations (beyond genes which predicted automatically) mostly reside text primary publications. Professional curators hard at work extracting those from literature for most studied organisms depositing them structured databases. However, resources don't exist to fund comprehensive curation thousands newly this manner. Here, we describe WikiGenomes (wikigenomes.org), a web application that facilitates consumption by entire scientific community. is based on Wikidata, an openly editable knowledge graph with goal aggregating published into free open database. empowers individual researcher contribute expertise effort integrates enabling it be accessed anyone without restriction. Database URL: www.wikigenomes.org