Whew!

I think I speak for the entire team at ClinicalTrialsWiki.org when I say that we're thrilled to have a new, far more functional site go live today. Everyone here has been working feverishly over the last 72 hours to get this work done, though it's just the beginning.

To his credit, Brice has been on call in the ICU and several times decided to get work done with us post-call instead of going to sleep. And this weekend, Gaurav heroically led our webcrawler development effort though his new fiancee flew into town for the weekend! Both of my teammates continue to inspire me with their passion for this project.

Here are a few highlights of our achievements over the last few days:

• We designed and implemented a Wikibot to automate the extraction of data from ClinicalTrials.gov
  
• We laid out a brand new format for our clinical trials 'data' page
• We decided on a new logo, color scheme, and website layout
• We met with friends and colleagues at HMS, the Countway medical library, and HealthMap to get feedback on our ideas and refine our thinking about the site
• We've set up meetings with NEJM and FDA to discuss possible partnership and site integration

Every minute as I write this, our crawler is adding 5-10 new fully populated clinical trials to our site. Look for even more changes to come, particularly as we enhance the usability of the wiki features of the site, so that anyone on the web can edit articles and upload data files.

We're committed to being 100% transparent with you about how we develop and maintain our site. We know you might have ideas about where we should go from here, and we want to hear from you.