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OpenWetWare
A wiki for capturing and sharing biological knowledge
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Problem
Much of the knowledge produced by biological research is passed down by oral tradition.
This makes it difficult for newcomers to enter the field.
Solution: OpenWetWare
OpenWetWare's contributions
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- Easy and collaborative content generation
- Community discourse
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Labs on OpenWetWare
Integrating OpenWetWare into research
Examining Communication
Ethnomethodology:
A sociological discipline which focuses on the ways in which people make sense of their world, display this understanding to others, and produce the mutually shared social order in which they live. (Wikipedia)
Discourse Analysis
Dysfunctionality of Model Publishing
figure: Ty Thompson
Systematization and Data Standards
- Communicating with computers, not people
- Rigid, one-way "conversation"
Literate Programming
Donald Knuth, 1981
Write programs primarily for humans, not computers
YeastPheromoneModel.org
Ty Thomson, MIT
YeastPheromoneModel.org
Existing Data Standards
- MIRIAM - Minimum Information Requested in the Annotation of Biochemical Models
- SBML - Systems Biology Markup Language
80-20 Rule / Pareto Principle
How do we communicate the final 20% ?
Conversation is robust, and necessary anyway
OpenWetWare's success
- 2,800 contributors
- 100 labs
- 1.5 million pageviews per month
- 275,000 sessions per month
http://openwetware.org
