Making your database available through Wikipedia: The pros and cons

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue D1, 2012, Pages

  Finn, Robert D ^a   Gardner, Paul P ^b   Bateman, Alex ^c  

^a Janelia Farm Research Campus ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

959 NEMATODE GENOMES; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ECOLIWIKI; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENEWIKI; GONUTS; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION STORAGE; METADATABASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYSQL DATABASE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PDBWIKI; PFAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEQWIKI; SNPEDIA; SUBTIWIKI; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNIPROTKB; WEB BROWSER; WIKIPATHWAYS; WIKIPEDIA; XANTHUSBASE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENCYCLOPEDIAS AS TOPIC; INTERNET; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84861118142     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1195     Document Type: Article

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