Science and Wiki

While cleaning up the reading pile, a nature article about wiki caught my eye. It introduced me the WikiPathways, a pathway database built upon web collaboration. Several years ago, when I was working on signaling pathways and protein interactions, good databases were curated and maintained by specific group of people (lots of articles on Nuclear Acid Research database issue every year). Doing collaborative science is a nice concept, and needs to be explorered more.

The biggest problem that we face right now is the "publish or perish", and wiki systems will not solve it.

@I'm spending some (very little) of my spare time on Scholarpedia, a wiki-based scientific review/encyclopedia. Little by little, we make a better world.