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WikiPathways: Pathway Editing for the People

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Pico, Alexander R, Kelder, Thomas, van Iersel, Martijn P, Hanspers, Kristina, Conklin, Bruce R, Evelo, Chris·2008·PLoS Biology

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WikiPathways provides a collaborative platform for creating, updating, and sharing pathway diagrams and serves as an example of content curation by the biology community.

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  • WikiPathways is working on using BioPAX to import pathways from numerous sources.

    “For instance, the ChiBE and VisANT pathway visualization tools read BioPAX format22 and the WikiPathways website53, a community wiki for pathways, is working on using BioPAX to help import pathways from numerous sources, including manually edited pathways from biologists.”

    From The BioPAX community standard for pathway data sharing (2010) · cites this paper as [53]

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Authors
Pico, A. R., Kelder, T., van Iersel, M. P., Hanspers, K., Conklin, B. R., & Evelo, C.
Affiliations
  • Gladstone Institutes (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
  • Conklin, Bruce R
  • Evelo, Chris
Venue
PLoS Biology
Published
2008-07-22
Volume
6
Issue
7
Pages
e184
ISSN
  • 1544-9173 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-7885
OpenAlex
W2010502047
Cited by
701
References
12
Citations by year
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FWCI
19.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (HG003053, R01HG003053)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM080223, GM080223)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Keywords
WikiPathways, pathway diagrams, collaborative editing, content curation, biological pathway databases
MeSH terms
Database Management Systems, Signal Transduction, Databases, Factual, Systems Integration, Internet, Metabolic Networks and Pathways

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