WikiPathways: new features for a growing community

25 Nov 2011

New features of WikiPathways, a public wiki for pathway curation, are discussed in the November issue of Nucleic Acids Research. New features include a zoomable pathway viewer, support for pathway ontology annotations, the ability to mark pathways as private for a limited time and the availability of stable hyperlinks to pathways and the elements therein.

WikiPathways content is freely available in a variety of formats such as the BioPAX standard, and since it was first published in 2008 the content is increasingly adopted by external databases and tools, including Wikipedia. A recent development is the use of WikiPathways as a staging ground for centrally curated databases such as Reactome. WikiPathways is seeing steady growth in the number of users, page views and edits for each pathway. The novel use of pathway pages as supplementary material to publications, as well as the addition of tailored content for research domains, is expected to stimulate growth further.

http://www.wikipathways.org

WikiPathways: building research communities on biological pathways.
Kelder T, van Iersel MP, Hanspers K, Kutmon M, Conklin BR, Evelo CT, Pico AR
Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Nov 16

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