OpenWetWare: A Collaborative Tool for Biological Knowledge Management and Dissemination

麻省理工学院获得了一笔拨款，用于增强现有的生物知识资源，即开放式WetWare，使研究人员能够组织和传播实验生物学研究执行过程中产生的协议、中期和负面结果以及上下文元数据。该系统提供了一种群件类型的协作环境，目前有60个实验室的1000名用户在使用该环境。具体的任务是在可持续模式下建立领导和技术基础设施，开发额外的工具来扩展系统管理的知识类型和组织，并实现基于wiki的框架来分发和支持软件。OWW作为社区资源的建立将促进协作，促进数据文档和共享的更好实践，帮助开发教育材料，并为初级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.