WikiProteins is a consortium initiative and is technically supported by the Open Progress Foundation and the company Knewco Inc. Wikiproteins functionality and content will be free to contributing scientists in perpetuity.
WikiProteins is in fact much broader than just a 'proteomics' oriented environment, although a main focus is on proteins and their role in biology and disease. Many other focused planned Wikis for Professionals will be developed but these will all operate on the same database system and will be fully interactive.
In this Wiki, you can find information on more than a million biomedical concepts but more importantly, you can add your own knowledge about your favorite concepts to this Wiki, which will result in an interaction with many other scientists about your fields of expertise. The Wiki has been initially filled using
authoritative sources. In Wikiproteins data can be added both in free text and in a structured way, thus enabling community management of the underlying relational databases.
