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OpenWetWare is awiki whose mission is "to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering."[1]
OpenWetWare was created by graduate students atMIT on April 20, 2005. Initially, it served as a private lab wiki for the labs ofDrew Endy andTom Knight atMIT. The site was opened up to allow any lab to join on June 22, 2005. As of April 6, 2007, the site hosted 100 research laboratories from over 40 institutions, includingBoston University,Brown University,Caltech,University of Cambridge,CNRS,Duke University, and many others.
In addition to laboratories, a number of scientific communities are based on the site, includingsynthetic biology,Mimulus, and theBioBricks Foundation. One scientific community is the iGEM community with over 60 different teams represented on June 28, 2013, including the NRP-UEA-Norwich team and the Groningen team.
OpenWetWare runs onMediaWiki software onLinux servers. All content is available under free content licenses, specifically theGNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and theCreative Commons AttributionShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license.
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