Summary: A model of social collaboration in Molecular
Biology knowledge bases
Luna De Ferrari
1
, Stuart Aitken
1
, Jano van Hemert
2
, Igor Goryanin
1
1
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
luna.deferrari@ed.ac.uk
2
National e-Science Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, UK
Abstract. Manual annotation of biological data cannot keep up with
data production. Open annotation models using wikis have been pro-
posed to address this problem. In this empirical study we analyse 36
years of knowledge collection by 738 authors in two Molecular Biology

Source: Aitken, Stuart - Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences