Published January 3, 2022 | Version 1
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COSI-Article matrix: linking ISCB Communities of Special Interest to Wikipedia

Creators

  • 1. Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • 2. School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London, UK; Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK
  • 3. Office of Instructional Innovation, Ohio University, USA
  • 4. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA
  • 5. ISCB RSG Bangladesh
  • 6. Faculty of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, Bangladesh
  • 7. Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
  • 8. Colombian Institute of Tropical Medicine, CES University, Medellín, Colombia
  • 9. Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • 10. UMRS-1124, INSERM, Université de Paris, Paris, France
  • 11. Department of Bioengineering, Ege University, Turkey
  • 12. IISc Mathematics Initiative, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
  • 13. Department of Biomedical Data Intelligence, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • 14. Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
  • 15. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
  • 16. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh
  • 17. Genetics and Forensic Studies Unit (UEGF), Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Venezuela
  • 18. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
  • 19. Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control And Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • 20. Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 21. Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, UK
  • 22. Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA; Dept. of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
  • 23. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
  • 24. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, USA

Description

Wikipedia is regarded as one of the most important channels for the public communication of science; English Wikipedia has around 1,500 articles relating to computational biology, which are frequently accessed as an educational resource. Joint efforts between the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Computational Biology taskforce of WikiProject Molecular Biology (a group of expert Wikipedia editors) have considerably improved computational biology representation on Wikipedia in recent years. However, there is still an urgent need for further quality improvement, primarily while comparing to related scientific fields such as genetics and medicine. Facilitating the involvement of members from ISCB COSIs (Communities of Special Interest) would improve a vital open educational resource in computational biology, additionally allowing COSIs to provide a quality educational resource particular to their subfield.

This first version of the COSI-Article matrix is a binary matrix identifying relevant ISCB COSIs for all Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology, defining a domain-specific open educational resource for each COSI. In addition, quality and importance ratings for each article allow identification of areas where domain experts could improve computational biology representation.

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