OpenWetWare

OpenWetWare logo, designed by Jennifer Cook-Chrysos

OpenWetWare is a wiki whose mission is "to support open research, education, publication, and discussion in biological sciences and engineering."

OpenWetWare was created by graduate students at MIT on April 20, 2005. Initially, it served as a private lab wiki for the labs of Drew Endy and Tom Knight at MIT. 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, including Boston University, Brown University, Caltech, Cambridge Research Institute, CNRS, Duke University, and many others.

In addition to laboratories, a number of scientific communities are based on the site, including synthetic biology, Mimulus, and the BioBricks 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 on MediaWiki software on Linux servers. All content is available under free content licenses, specifically the GNU free documentation license (GFDL) and the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.

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Free culture and open movements

Concepts	Citizen science Commons-based peer production Knowledge commons Open access Open collaboration Open content Open communication Open data Open design Open education Open government Open innovation Open knowledge Open patent Open research Open science Open-source architecture Open-source software Open-source governance Open-source journalism Open source hardware Open standards Open university admissions Open Web P2P economic system

Tools	Free and open-source software Open educational resources Open Music Model Open notebook science

Organizations	Creative Commons DIYbio Free Software Foundation Open Architecture Network Open Knowledge Foundation Open Rights Group Open Source Initiative P2P Foundation Pirate Party PLOS SPARC

Activists	Alexandra Elbakyan Aaron Swartz Douglas Rushkoff John Wilbanks Lawrence Lessig Peter Murray-Rust Peter Suber Peter Sunde Richard Stallman Tim Berners-Lee

Projects	Creative Commons license Definition of Free Cultural Works Free culture movement Free software movement Open Source Ecology OpenCores OpenWetWare Sci-hub

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