WikiPathways

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The WikiPathways project is an open, public platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways by and for the scientific community.

Contents 1 Resource description 2 Authors 2.1 Contact 3 External links

[edit] Resource description

WikiPathways facilitates the open and collaborative contribution and maintenance of pathway information by the biology community. WikiPathways enhances and complements ongoing efforts, such as KEGG, Reactome and Pathway Commons. Building on the same MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia a custom graphical pathway editing tool has been added in addition to an integrated databases covering major gene, protein, and small-molecule systems. The familiar web-based format of WikiPathways greatly reduces the barrier to participate in pathway curation. More importantly, the open, public approach of WikiPathways allows for broader participation by the entire community, ranging from students to senior experts in each field. This approach also shifts the bulk of peer review, editorial curation, and maintenance to the community.

[edit] Authors

1. WikiPathways is a collaborative project with many contributors.
2. The current WikiPathways team includes Thomas A.J. Kelder, Alexander R. Pico, Martijn van Iersel, Kristina Hanspers, Bruce R. Conklin and Chris T.A. Evelo at the BiGCaT Bioinformatics (University of Maastricht) and the Conklin Lab at the Gladstone Institutes (University of California, San Francisco).

[edit] Contact

• Thomas Kelder
• Alex Pico

[edit] External links

• Project homepage
• More about WikiPathways...