OpenWetWare
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OpenWetWare is a wiki created on April 20, 2005. The mission of the site is "to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering."
OpenWetWare was founded by graduate students at MIT. Initially, OpenWetWare served as a private lab wiki for the labs of Drew Endy and Tom Knight at MIT. The site was opened up to allow any lab to join on June 22, 2005. As of August 21, 2006 the site hosted 50 research laboratories from 30 institutions, including Boston University, Brown University, Caltech, Cambridge Research Institute, CNRS, Harvard University, and many others.
In addition to laboratories, a number of scientific communities are based on the site, including synthetic biology (home), Mimulus (home), and the BioBricks Foundation (home).
OpenWetWare runs on MediaWiki software on Linux servers. All content is available under free content licenses, specifically the GNU free documentation license (GFDL) and the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.
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[edit] Mentions in publications
- Science in the web age: Joint efforts Nature December 1, 2005.
- Wikis: Lab Partnering Science (journal) January 6, 2006 - mentioned on NetWatch page,
- BLOG and WIKI your science Biotechnology Journal December 27, 2005. Includes OpenWetWare in a list of blogs and wikis.
[edit] Subscription-only articles
- YouTube for test tubes Nature November 23, 2006.
- Online methods share insider tricks Nature June 7, 2006.
