Wikipedia:Wikiproject Metabolic Pathways

[edit] About Us

This Wikiproject is a daughter project of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject and aims to better organize information in articles related to metabolic pathways on Wikipedia.

Glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase

The Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject aims to organise some of the vast amount of information that has been and continues to be collected about genomes, proteomes and cell function which is currently stored in obscure databases and journal articles. This daughter project is focusing on doing just that, for the information on the enzymes and compounds in metabolic pathways.

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at How you can help section below. Also of interest is the Molecular and Cellular Biology Portal associated with the parent of this project. You don't need to know anything about biology to help!

[edit] Basic goals

• Create and perfect articles on metabolic pathways and other related articles, with particular focus on making individual articles on invidual metabolic pathway components accessable. The perfect article is complete, but accessible to a secondary school student.
• Create a standard system for presenting the information about the enzymes and compounds that are discussed in metabolic pathway related Wikipedia articles.

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

This is a daughter project of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject

Fructose 6-phosphokinase

Other similar projects include:

• Medicine Project

More projects can be found at:

• Biology Wikiprojects
• Health sciences Wikiprojects

From the list of active projects.

Sister projects

• Cell Signaling wikiproject

[edit] How you can help

[edit] Improve articles

• The pathway of the month page contains a list of the pages related to the current pathway of interest.
• Upgrade the infoboxes in chemical and enzyme articles.
• Improve enzyme images. This can be done using the raw structural data from the Protein Data Bank, the contents of which are in the public domain. Please look at discussion about how to standardize the depiction of proteins.

[edit] Categorize the many metabolic pathway related articles

• Mark metabolic pathway related stubs with the {{Metabolic pathway stub}} stub marker.
• Categorize enzyme and chemical articles by adding them to the appropriate metabolic pathway groups.
• Make sure that all articles about enzymes are placed in the proteins category or one of its subcategories.

[edit] Discuss

• Join in discussing proposals. Any ideas are always welcome!

[edit] Improve the project itself

• Improve or create reaction templates.
• Improve or create metabolic pathway navigation templates.
• Help to develop the Molecular and Cellular Biology protein infobox templates.
• Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in biochemistry to contribute to Wikipedia.

[edit] Participants

Here is a list of Metabolic Pathways Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.