Church, who started the Personal Genome Project and is founder of the gene-scanning company Knome, envisions a Wikipedia-style model for interpreting the genome, where experts (using their real namea) collaborate online to help people interpret their genome results.

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Wikipedia works on a cooperative model with checks and balances: Each article on the site has its own discussion page, where users debate about edits, additions, new entries and other editorial decisions.

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However, the 2001 model now had access to a free encyclopedia called Wikipedia.

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Taha Yasseri, a physicist at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, created a mathematical model that takes into account data such as the number of readers and editors for the Wikipedia page.

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