Abstract
The International Society for Computational Biology and WikiProject Computational Biology: celebrating 10 years of collaboration towards open access
Highlights
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) works closely with WikiProject Computational Biology (WCB), a group of around 130 editors overseeing Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology and bioinformatics
This article serves to acknowledge past ISCB–WCB collaborations, release the results of the 2016–2017 ISCB Wikipedia competition, officially announce the 2017–2018 competition, and explore exciting future directions, including the potential role of WCB in classroom education for computational biology
ISCB and WCB are keen to expand on the depth and quality of articles relating to computational biology and encourage students and trainees at all levels to take part in the ISCB Wikipedia Competition, write topic pages, and drop in to the Wikipedia Editathon at ISMB/ECCB 2017
Summary
There were 17 substantial entries into the 2016–2017 Wikipedia competition, including five entries for non-English articles. The judging panel selected the following as the winners of the 2016–2017 ISCB Wikipedia competition: First prize: Yadi Zhou (Ohio University, USA) for improvements to the Smith-Waterman algorithm article, in both English and Chinese Wikipedia. The ISCB encourages competition entries for contributions to Wikipedia in any language, and contributions to Wikidata items. Each article entered in the competition will be reviewed by students nominated by the ISCB Student Council, and a shortlist of entries will be examined by a judging panel. The winners will be presented with their awards at ISMB 2018 in Chicago
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