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Enhancing Computational Biology Education through Wikipedia

Explore how Wikipedia's content on Computational Biology can be leveraged for training and education. Join WikiProject Computational Biology to improve articles, assess quality, and enrich resources on relevant topics. Sign up, contribute, and empower learning in this field.

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Enhancing Computational Biology Education through Wikipedia

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  1. Wikipedia as a resource for Computational Biology training Education track – ISMB 2011 Alex Bateman

  2. Wikipedia is • The worlds largest online encyclopedia • Part of the Wikimedia family Wikimedia Commons

  3. Wikipedia is not • A training manual • But Wikiversity is! • Not much relevant content

  4. Page views per month • DNA microarray 32,664 • Dynamic programming 23,239 • Hidden Markov model 22,084 • Phylogenetic tree 21,417 • BLAST 15,114 • Systems biology 10,801 • Computational Biology 4,968 • Smith-Waterman algorithm 1,008

  5. WikiProject Computational Biology • Goal is to improve Computational Biology content in Wikipedia • Initial efforts focused on: • identifying relevant articles • Assessing quality and importance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology

  6. How much content in WP?

  7. What needs work?

  8. Plenty to do • Sign up to participants list • Pick an article to improve • Finding more articles and assessment • Adding materials to Wikimedia Commons

  9. Thanks to … U+003F Hodja Nasreddin Jebus989 Duncan.Hull Lenov Plindenbaum Magnus Manske Darren Logan Manuel Corpas

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