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Share Your Pathway Knowledge

Over 700 researchers and pathway enthusiasts have shared their time and knowledge here at WikiPathways. We see ~100 new pathways each year along with thousands of edits and updates.

Join the effort to collect pathway knowledge in a format that can be broadly redistributed and made useful to active biomedical research.

• Rapidly growing collection of COVID-19 pathways. If you find or add a pathway at WikiPathways that should be included in this collection, please let us know.
• Published pathway figures related to COVID-19. Useful resource of previously published (but not modeled) pathways for direct translation as new pathways or to inform related pathway curation.
• Protein sequence alignments of SARS-CoV-2. Useful resource mapping SARS-CoV-2 proteins to those previously studied, including many solved structures.
• COVID-19 disease map initiative. An even broader community of pathway curators working with WikiPathways, Pathway Commons, Reactome, Cell Designer and more. Great community and set of resources, including repos, file shares, mailing list and Slack channel.
• Human Coronavirus protein identifiers and SARS-CoV-2 protein identifiers
• PubChem list of the COVID-19 Portal pathways

IMPORTANT: WikiPathways is dedicated to FAIR standards. All content at WikiPathways is freely available for use and reuse by a CC0 waiver. </div>

Getting Started

 1. If you are brand new to pathway modeling, then we recommend starting with our online workshop: Introduction to Pathway Modeling (scroll down to the "Online Learning" section). Also check out this helpful tutorial and set of guidelines for new pathway authors, which includes links to video tutorials as well.

 2. If you want more practice with the pathway drawing tool and WikiPathways, then check out our online learning tool WikiPathways Academy.

 3. When you are ready to start editing at WikiPathways, be sure that you have PathVisio and the WikiPathways plugin installed (see Step 1) and check-in with the community at google discussion forum to confirm your account and ask any questions you might have.

Resources for Pathway Authors and Curators

• Introduction to Pathway Modeling
• WikiPathways Academy
• Instructions for Authors
• Styling WikiPathways Models in Cytoscape
• Editing Pathways
• Deleting Pathways
• Editor's Palette Guide
• Guidelines for Contributors
• Quality Tags
• Private Pathways
• Keeping Track of Pathways
• Editing pathways with the WikiPathways Client plugin for PathVisio
• WikiPathways Portals
• How to add your ORCID identifier
• Quality Assurance Protocol