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;''Why Pathways
;''Why Pathways
Biological pathways provide intuitive views of the myriad of interactions underlying biological processes.  A typical signaling pathway, for example, can represent receptor-binding events, protein complexes, phosphorylation reactions, translocations and transcriptional regulation, with only a minimal set of symbols, lines and arrows.  These powerful representations are essential tools, common among the [[:Category:Textbooks|textbooks]] and review articles that document any given field of biology.  Making these tools available for computational methods of analysis will allow {{tag|research}}ers to connect pathways to databases of biological annotations and experimental {{tag|data}}, creating effective products of systems biology.  Collecting and maintaining pathway information in a robust database, however, is an ongoing challenge.
Biological pathways provide intuitive views of the myriad of interactions underlying biological processes.  A typical signaling pathway, for example, can represent receptor-binding events, protein complexes, phosphorylation reactions, translocations and transcriptional regulation, with only a minimal set of symbols, lines and arrows.  These powerful representations are essential tools, common among the [[:Category:Textbook|textbooks]] and review articles that document any given field of biology.  Making these tools available for computational methods of analysis will allow {{tag|research}}ers to connect pathways to databases of biological annotations and experimental {{tag|data}}, creating effective products of systems biology.  Collecting and maintaining pathway information in a robust database, however, is an ongoing challenge.


;''How Does it Work
;''How Does it Work
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;''{{tag|GreatFeature|Great features}}
;''{{tag|GreatFeature|Great features}}
*WikiPathways wiki has its own unique customised statistics page.  This offers a weighted table of [[user]] contribution 'scores', a custom 'page count' specifically for their 'pathways' (in a similar vein that we list commons wikis by their number of [[file]]s rather than article pages), plus a number of visual graphs displaying various metrics of the WikiPathways wiki site;
*WikiPathways wiki has its own unique customised statistics page.  This offers a weighted table of [[user]] contribution 'scores', a custom 'page count' specifically for their 'pathways' (in a similar vein that we list commons wikis by their number of [[file]]s rather than article pages), plus a number of visual graphs displaying various metrics of the WikiPathways wiki site;
*Every month, WikiPathways releases its latest curated updated [https://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Download_Pathways Pathways for download]
*Every month, WikiPathways releases its latest curated updated [https://www.WikiPathways.org/index.php/Download_Pathways Pathways for download]


;''External links
;''External links