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Welcome to ConceptWiki


September 8, 2010
Over 1 million concepts



Announcement: The ConceptWiki will be updated February 12, 2010. With this update, the URIs will change. UUIDs will be implemented for every concept and from then on the URIs should be stable.

What is a concept?

A concept is a ‘unit of thought’ and is in essence not ‘lingual’. By virtue of being a discrete unit of thought, concepts are intrinsically non-ambiguous. However, lingual or computational references to the concept (terms and identifiers) can be highly ambiguous and confusing. Computers have great difficulty to resolve ambiguity in free text. It is therefore of the utmost importance that terms and identifiers in free text and structured data sources are first mapped to concepts before being used to ‘interconnect data’ in other information resources. If not resolved first, ambiguity will lead to massive mismatches and confusion.

Find and edit your favorite Biomedical concept

Concept Wiki presently has two domains, ConceptWiki and WikiPeople, where you can find more than a million biomedical concepts, and more than million authors. More importantly, you can add your own knowledge to the concept of your choice or you can maintain and modify a page that lists your own published works and concepts of interest.

Portals

Proteins portal: WikiProteins main page
WikiPeople portal: WikiPeople main page


About ConceptWiki

The ConceptWiki environment is an umbrella for several categories of professional data. Presently, two Wikis, WikiPeople and WikiProteins, have been filled using information provided by several consortium members to jumpstart a medium capable of developing valuable knowledge repositories. The main focus of WikiProteins is on life science and medical concepts and their role in biology and disease. In WikiProteins, scientists can add new or edit existing textual commentary, for example, to nuance or describe new biological functions or processes. It will also be possible to establish links between two records to illustrate pertinent connections. All modifications are attributed to the participating scientist and certain granting agencies have indicated that they are interested in using the resulting contributions as indices of scholarly achievement. WikiPeople is a forum for scientists that displays their published works but can be modified and enhanced by the individual.
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ConceptWiki
The ConceptWiki is a universal open access repository of editable concepts. ConceptWiki will evolve from the wiki that is found here now. There will be some rearrangement of the interface and when complete, the ConceptWiki will feature, for each specific concept, a Also Known As table containing identifiers (from various databases) and the associated terminological information. All the additional information that is now present on each concept page will be available by clicking on a "More about this concept" link. The ConceptWiki will continue to focus on life sciences and people working within these domains. The terminology and identifiers will be freely downloadable from the ConceptWiki and can be used to as a thesaurus to identify concept-denoting tokens in text and databases.

WikiProteins
WikiProteins has pages for over one million biomedical concepts, derived from authorities such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, and the Gene Ontology (GO). By adding information to concepts in WikiProteins, scientists expand an evolving knowledge base with facts, connections to other concepts, and reference information.

WikiPeople
Experts who have published in PubMed have a personal Wiki page. This page features their publications, their concepts of interests, and additional aliases. Each scientist represented in WikiPeople has the opportunity to ‘authorize’ their page to confirm that the information shown is correct. Authors can edit the publication list; remove publications that have been assigned to them incorrectly or add publications that erroneously missed. Scientists can merge two pages that have been pre-constructed based on two variant spellings (synonyms) of their name to create a comprehensive page. A list of concepts derived from the publications as also shown and can be edited by choosing from the collection of well over a million biomedical concepts.



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