Xanthusbase -- adapting wikipedia principles to a model organism database
What you can do:
Search for comprehensive information on social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.
Highlights:
- Xanthusbase is the official model organism database (MOD) for the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.
- The design of xanthusBase incorporates open-source software, leveraging the cumulative experience made available through the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project, MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org), and dictyBase (http://www.dictybase.org), to create a MOD that is both highly useful and easily navigable.
- The authors incorporated a unique Wikipedia-style curation model which exploits the internet's inherent interactivity, thus enabling M.xanthus and other myxobacterial researchers to contribute directly toward the ongoing genome annotation.
Keywords:
- Myxococcus xanthus genome portal
- prokaryotic multicellularity
- biofilms
- bacterial genome
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This record last updated: 03-21-2007