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Title: MetaBase--the wiki-database of biological databases Authors: Dan M Bolser; Pierre‐Yves Chibon; Nicolás Palópoli; Sungsam Gong; Daniel J Jacob; Victoria Domínguez Del Angel; Daniel Swan; Sebastián Bassi; Virginia González; Prashanth Suravajhala; Sang‐Hyun Hwang; Paolo DM Romano; Robert Alan Edwards; B. Bishop; J. Eargle; Timur Shtatland; Nicholas James Provart; Dave Clements; Daniel P. Renfro; Daeui Bhak; Jong Bhak Venue: Nucleic Acids Research Year: 2011 Canonical: doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1099 URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr1099 Collector: openalex OA: true ABSTRACT Biology is generating more data than ever. As a result, there is an ever increasing number of publicly available databases that analyse, integrate and summarize the available data, providing an invaluable resource for the biological community. As this trend continues, there is a pressing need to organize, catalogue and rate these resources, so that the information they contain can be most effectively exploited. MetaBase (MB) (http://MetaDatabase.Org) is a community-curated database containing more than 2000 commonly used biological databases. Each entry is structured using templates and can carry various user comments and annotations. Entries can be searched, listed, browsed or queried. The database was created using the same MediaWiki technology that powers Wikipedia, allowing users to contribute on many different levels. The initial release of MB was derived from the content of the 2007 Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Database Issue. Since then, approximately 100 databases have been manually collected from the literature, and users have added information for over 240 databases. MB is synchronized annually with the static Molecular Biology Database Collection provided by NAR. To date, there have been 19 significant contributors to the project; each one is listed as an author here to highlight the community aspect of the project.