OpenWetWare: A Collaborative Tool for Biological Knowledge Management and Dissemination

马萨诸塞州理工学院获得了一笔赠款，以加强现有的生物知识资源，称为开放式WetWare，使研究人员能够组织和传播协议，中期和负面结果，以及在执行实验室生物学研究期间产生的上下文元数据。该系统提供了一个群件类型的协作环境，目前使用的1000名用户在60个实验室。具体任务是在一个可持续的模式下建立领导和技术基础设施，开发更多的工具来扩大系统管理的知识类型和组织，并实施一个基于维基的框架来分发和支持软件。OWW作为社区资源的建立将促进合作，促进数据记录和共享的更好实践，帮助开发教育材料，并为板凳生物学家提供与其他生物知识资源的元级链接。

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is awarded a grant to enhance an existing biological knowledge resource known as Open WetWare that enables researchers to organize and disseminate protocols, interim and negative results, and contextual metadata generated during the execution of bench biology research. The system provides a groupware type of collaborative environment that is currently used by 1000 users in 60 labs. The specific tasks are to establish leadership and technical infrastructure under a sustainable model, develop additional tools for expanding the types and organization of knowledge that is managed by the system, and implement a Wiki-based framework for distributing and supporting the software. Establishment of OWW as a community resource will enable collaboration, promote better practices for data documentation and sharing, aid development of educational materials, and provide bench biologists with meta-level linkages to other biological knowledge resources.