Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Cell Signaling

{{MolBioHeader/Taskforce In 2007, some Wikipedians formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Cell Signaling and to help focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions up until 2013, when the project became inactive; If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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Scope
This project was dedicated to improving and organising the Wikipedia articles on cell signaling to provide a convenient and reliable reference of the known signal transduction pathways. It covers the pathway pages and individual protein pages related to them.

Goals

 * Creating comprehensive articles for each known cell signaling pathway
 * Organising cell signaling articles with navigation boxes like these: WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology.
 * Organising and creating articles on notable proteins involved in signaling pathways.
 * Providing each pathway with a clear diagram of its structure.
 * Clearly citing sources, especially for active research topics

Target audience

 * Introduction to pathway articles should make minimal use of jargon and be kept relatively simple
 * Subsections and protein pages can be more technical

Templates Tools
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Article Structure
Proposed structure of a pathway article:
 * General introduction - keep it simple and clear
 * History/Discovery - discovery, seminal papers
 * Mechanism - the proteins involved and how they interact.
 * Role - the role of the pathway
 * Human disease - alternatively this can be incorporated into the previous section
 * Current research - recent advances, future directions

Proposed scheme for pathway diagrams is described here. Please do comment and contribute.

Participants
A list of taskforce members (along with some of their interests) is maintained under the  WikiProject Molecular Biology page. To join, simply add yourself at that page and indicate your interests.

Although this taskforce is currently considered inactive, it can always be reactivated if there are interested participants!

Guestlist
If you'd really like to contribute, but don't have much time, you can still participate by adding your name to the Guestlist.

Articles in Categories

 * Category:Signal transduction
 * Category:Cell signaling (proposed to be merged with Category:Signal Transduction).