New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web: "'All the Web can do is find a document for you and display it for you,' said Wilbanks. 'The semantic web marks things up in a more concrete manner; it says that there are relationships.' For example, a scientist could search for peer-reviewed articles about a particular gene, data related to that gene, or models about how that gene might affect other genes and proteins.
Neurocommons.org is set up to be maintained by its community of users. Researchers will be able to annotate each others' data.
Wilbanks hopes that, eventually, researchers will see contributing information to the semantic Web as part of their scientific duty, much like peer review. But he admits that it isn't yet part of scientific culture. 'It's hard to get someone to take the time to say, 'I'm going to make my data reusable by someone that doesn't know me.' '"
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