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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on December 6, 2008
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2009 10(3):295-296; doi:10.1093/bib/bbn053
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A pitfall of wiki solution for biological databases

Masanori Arita

Corresponding author. Masanori Arita, Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5 GSFS CB05, 277-8561 Kashiwa, Japan. Tel: +81-4-7136-3988; Fax: +81-4-7136-4074; E-mail: arita{at}k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Not a few biologists tend to consider wiki as a solution to manage and reorganize data by a community. However, in its basic functionality, wiki lacks a measure to check data consistency and is not suitable for a database. To circumvent this pitfall, installation of page dependency through in-line page searches is necessary. We also introduce two existing approaches that support in-line queries.

Keywords: wiki, database, semantic web, relational model, page dependency

Submitted: October 17, 2008. Received (in revised form): November 5, 2008.


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