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Nature 439, 534 (2 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439534a; Published online 1 February 2006
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Gene-function wiki would let biologists pool worldwide resources
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Box 358070, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Your Special Report "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head" (Nature 438, 900–901; 2005) shows that Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries.As a frequent user of Wikipedia and also a biologist, I hope that one day a wiki on gene function will be voluntarily created and maintained by biologists.
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