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Portals within WikiPathways for communities with focused pathway interests:
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Portals within WikiPathways serve as organizing points for communities with focused pathway interests. For example, a portal could organize pathways for a particular species or research area. The main advantages of portals include:
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* simplifying drawing and data basing of your pathways
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* help to keep track of ‘works-in-progress’ with collaborators
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* help attribute credit for pathway authors and curators
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* attract new collaborators
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* help to define a community
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<p>WikiPathways currently has two portals, highlighting pathway content contributed by specific communities:
* [[Portal:GenMAPP|GenMAPP]] contributed pathways
* [[Portal:GenMAPP|GenMAPP]] contributed pathways
* [[Portal:BiGCaT|BiGCaT]] contributed pathways
* [[Portal:BiGCaT|BiGCaT]] contributed pathways
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Creating a portal is easy using existing templates available from WikiPathways. If you are interested in creating a portal at WikiPathways, please [[Contact_Us|Contact us!]].
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Revision as of 19:25, 30 May 2008

Portals within WikiPathways serve as organizing points for communities with focused pathway interests. For example, a portal could organize pathways for a particular species or research area. The main advantages of portals include:

* simplifying drawing and data basing of your pathways 
* help to keep track of ‘works-in-progress’ with collaborators
* help attribute credit for pathway authors and curators
* attract new collaborators 
* help to define a community

WikiPathways currently has two portals, highlighting pathway content contributed by specific communities:

Creating a portal is easy using existing templates available from WikiPathways. If you are interested in creating a portal at WikiPathways, please Contact us!.

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