Characterizing domain-specific open educational resources by linking ISCB Communities of Special Interest to Wikipedia

Author:

Kilpatrick Alastair M1,Rahman Farzana23,Anjum Audra4,Shome Sayane5,Andalib K M Salim6,Banik Shrabonti7,Chowdhury Sanjana F8,Coombe Peter9,Astroz Yesid Cuesta10,Douglas J Maxwell11,Eranti Pradeep12,Kiran Aleyna D13,Kumar Sachendra14,Lim Hyeri15,Lorenzi Valentina1617,Lubiana Tiago1819,Mahmud Sakib20,Puche Rafael21,Rybarczyk Agnieszka22,Al Sium Syed Muktadir8,Twesigomwe David2324,Zok Tomasz22,Orengo Christine A25,Friedberg Iddo2627,Kelso Janet F28,Welch Lonnie29

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh, UK

2. Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University , London, UK

3. Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales , Pontypridd, UK

4. Office of Instructional Innovation, Ohio University , Athens, OH, USA

5. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University , Stanford, CA, USA

6. ISCB Regional Student Group Bangladesh , Dhaka, Bangladesh

7. Faculty of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Sylhet Agricultural University , Sylhet, Bangladesh

8. BCSIR Dhaka Laboratory, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

9. Wikipedia Volunteer , San Francisco, CA, USA

10. Colombian Institute of Tropical Medicine, CES University , Medellín, Colombia

11. Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency , Vancouver, BC, Canada

12. UMRS-1124, INSERM, Université de Paris , Paris, France

13. Department of Bioengineering, Ege University , Bornova, Turkey

14. IISc Mathematics Initiative, Indian Institute of Science , Bengaluru, India

15. Department of Biomedical Data Intelligence, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto, Japan

16. Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton , Cambridge, UK

17. European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) , Hinxton, UK

18. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo , São Paulo, Brazil

19. Ronin Institute , Montclair, NJ, USA

20. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Discipline, Khulna University , Khulna, Bangladesh

21. Genetics and Forensic Studies Unit, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC) , Caracas, Venezuela

22. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology , Poznan, Poland

23. Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa

24. Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa

25. Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London , London, UK

26. Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University , Ames, IA, USA

27. Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University , Ames, IA, USA

28. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology , Leipzig, Germany

29. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University , Athens, OH, USA

Abstract

Abstract Motivation Wikipedia is one of the most important channels for the public communication of science and is frequently accessed as an educational resource in computational biology. 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 improvement in quality, especially when compared to related scientific fields such as genetics and medicine. Facilitating involvement of members from ISCB Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) would improve a vital open education resource in computational biology, additionally allowing COSIs to provide a quality educational resource highly specific to their subfield. Results We generate a list of around 1500 English Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology and describe the development of a binary COSI-Article matrix, linking COSIs to relevant articles and thereby defining domain-specific open educational resources. Our analysis of the COSI-Article matrix data provides a quantitative assessment of computational biology representation on Wikipedia against other fields and at a COSI-specific level. Furthermore, we conducted similarity analysis and subsequent clustering of COSI-Article data to provide insight into potential relationships between COSIs. Finally, based on our analysis, we suggest courses of action to improve the quality of computational biology representation on Wikipedia.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Computational Mathematics,Computational Theory and Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry,Statistics and Probability

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