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- Meta-analyses become outdated, sometimes before they are published.(PMID: 17638714)
- Meta-analyses may overlap each other without coordination.(PMID: 23873947)
Collaborative and continuous meta-analysis, supported by open-source, cloud development. While wikis also offer a solution, they are reaching limits in their ability to represent complex knowledge.(details) GitHub, originally developed for collaborative development of software, has been proposed as a method to publish legislative information with transparent tracking of development.( see Shirky and Government opens up) Likewise, GitHub can host medical knowledge, support team science(PMID: 18619407), and provide collaboration beyond what is possible with wikis. GitHub transparently tracks updates to meta-analyses and provides links to related, alternative, or competing, analyses. Collaboration with GitHub complements the functions of open data repositories such as DRYAD and YODA. There is no reason an open meta-analysis should ever go out of date. Anyone can revise it or copy it to make alternative analyses. Similar to wikigenes, authors' contributions are tracked for academic credit.
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