ISCB Wikipedia Competition
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
During the ISMB conference in July we announced that ISCB would be opening
an international competition to improve the coverage on Wikipedia of any aspect
of computational biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission to further the
scientific understanding of living systems through computation is to communicate
this knowledge to the public at large. Wikipedia has become an important way to
communicate all types of science to the public. The ISCB aims to further its
mission by increasing the quality of Wikipedia articles about computational
biology, and by improving accessibility to this information via Wikipedia. The
competition is open to students and trainees at any level either as individuals
or as groups.
We are now pleased to announce that the competition is
officially open as of the 9th of September 2012, coinciding with the start of
the ECCB conference, and will finish four months later on the 10th of January
2013.
The prize for the best article will be an award of $500 (US)
provided by the ISCB and a year's membership to the ISCB. A second prize will be
$200 and a year's membership to the ISCB.
For full details visit the
WikiProject Computational Biology/ISCB Competition Announcement. There you
will find information on how to enter the competition, how to create and edit
Wikipedia articles if not already trained in doing so, the rules and regulations
of the competition, and a special note for educators and course coordinators.
Please help spread the word - the more participants the higher the quality
will be of Wikipedia articles about computational biology for all. Feel free to
forward this mail, or share the URL of the competition announcement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISCB_competition_announcement).
Sincerely,
The ISCB Wikipedia Competition Judging Panel
Burkhard Rost
Alex Bateman
Predrag Radivojac
Janet Kelso
Thomas
Abeel
Geoff Macintyre
Darren Logan
Daniel Mietchener Center
Ohio
University (Russ College; Vice President Research; College of Arts and Science)
Ohio University Edison Biotechnology Institute
Procter & Gamble
Springer
The Ohio State University
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati
Children's Hospital
University of Michigan - DCM&B and OVPR
University of
Michigan - Biomedical Research Core Facilities
University of Michigan -
Metabolomics Core
University of Pittsburgh
Wittenberg University
Wright
State University
