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Big data: Wikiomics

Pioneering biologists are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data, reports Mitch Waldrop. But will the wider research community go along with the experiment?

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Mitch Waldrop is Editorials and Features editor for Nature. See also Editorial, page 1

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Waldrop, M. Big data: Wikiomics. Nature 455, 22–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/455022a

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