Some wikis I have known

Some wikis I have known

Arguing the case for using 'wiki-style' technology to store structured data by demoing a few of the 'data' wikis that I've created or developed, with an emphasis on wikis for biological data, the so called BioWikis.

My world view...

I WIKI

Disclaimer

When I say, "I'm a wiki person" I don't mean to imply that I think wiki is a specific tool that has strengths or weaknesses when compared to another tool, rather I mean that wiki is the realisation of a different philosophy of data curation that I support.

Technology

MediaWiki...

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Semantic MediaWiki...

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Wikis!

Wikis!

SEQwiki

Describes tools for HTS analysis

using structured data for each tool

collected via forms to help enforce structure.

Provides data driven navigation.

DASWiki

Model DAS data in the wiki.

Boils down to modelling GFF.

Can also model the whole registry...

DAS Wiki

Query API

DAS ServerWiki adaptorQuery APIDAS Client

DAS client configured to show a track from the DAS server.

Client queries the server for data.

Server uses the 'wiki adaptor' to query the wiki.

Wiki returns the queried data.

Data formatted as DAS.

Returned to the client.

DAS Wiki

Query API

DAS ServerWiki adaptorQuery APIDAS Client

Justin's Wiki

Wiki for plant genome annotation

A. thaliana + O. sativa GAF~10K annotations

~50K wiki pages

Git...

Git...

BioGit

The End

The End
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