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Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(Database issue):D422-D426; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl881
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, Database issue D422-D426
© 2006 The Author(s)
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Xanthusbase: adapting wikipedia principles to a model organism database

Bradley I. Arshinoff, Garret Suen, Eric M. Just1, Sohel M. Merchant1, Warren A. Kibbe1, Rex L. Chisholm1 and Roy D. Welch*

Department of Biology, Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244, USA 1 Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago, IL 60611, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 315 443 2159; Fax: +1 315 443 2012; Email: rowelch{at}syr.edu

Received August 15, 2006. Revised October 10, 2006. Accepted October 11, 2006.

xanthusBase (http://www.xanthusbase.org) is the official model organism database (MOD) for the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. In many respects, M.xanthus represents the pioneer model organism (MO) for studying the genetic, biochemical, and mechanistic basis of prokaryotic multicellularity, a topic that has garnered considerable attention due to the significance of biofilms in both basic and applied microbiology research. To facilitate its utility, 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. In addition, we have 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.


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