[Cz-biology] Proposal: Gene stubs for all genes in human genome

[David Tribe]

This is an opportunity to develop a seriously useful resource in biology,
and it power as a systematic index to biological science outweighs the
downsides, in my opinion

David T

On 18/04/2008, Chris Day <cday2 at wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> >Hi biologists,
> >
> >It would be doing us a service if someone would look in the archives
> >of this list to see what was said about the earlier incarnation of
> >Andrew's proposal.  Since we've decided to use CC-by-sa, I believe
> >we've removed the biggest hurdle to making this happen.
>
>
> I don't recall the details but I have discussed this proposal a lot
> with Andrew. For me this represents one of our best chances at
> recruiting frontline scientists to participate in this project. I
> will try and get all the pro and con arguments together so that we
> can start pushing this forward.
>
> For starters we can consider how this has worked at wikipedia ( one
> example here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDBP ) and consider how
> to adapt that model to our own subpages format.
>
> For more information on the wikipedia experiment see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot
>
>
> Chris
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