Thread:Suggested improvements to pathway (4)

Hi Emilia,

Thank you for your contribution to WikiPathways!

There are a few things that could improve the usefulness of your pathway:

1. Connect pathway entities (genes, proteins, metabolites) to database annotation. Right now, all entities on the pathway are simple graphical objects. Switching them to data node objects would allow you to easily annotate them with proper database IDs. Data node objects can be found under "Gene" on the toolbar. Simply drop any of the data node types on the drawing board and double-click on it to open a annotation search feature. Here you can search for identifiers directly, or my symbol, and pick an identifier from the results list. As an example, I annotated ATF3 in this way. 2. Connect data nodes with arrows. Data nodes have "snap" targets where lines/arrows can be connected, to create a true network representation of the pathway. To connect lines to data nodes, drag a line end over a data node and when you see green targets appear on the data node, simply drop the line end over such a target to connect the two. 3. Literature references can be added at the pathway level or to any object or connection in the pathway by right-clicking and selecting "Literature>Add literature reference". This brings up a PubMed query interface where you can search for PubMed ID.

Hope this helps.

Kristina

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