Important: WikiPathways Technical Transition - Action Required for Some Users

Dear WikiPathways Community,

Effective April 1st, 2026, we will begin taking major steps toward retiring the classic WikiPathways backend as we complete our migration to our GitHub-based infrastructure.

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#wikipathways #biology #openscience

new blog post: "Where do the WikiPathways come from?" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/02/22/where-do-the-wikipathways-come-from.html https://doi.org/10.59350/6smn2-ah530

"We can see who the 8 people are who contributed to this pathway [..], and many authors are member of the @wikipathways review team who focus more on technical quality and the biology. The first author, however, often is the person who contributed most of the biological knowledge in the pathway"

Replies to this post show up in the blog.

#wikipathways #biology #provenance

WikiPathways RDF IRIs are now dereferenceable! Every http://rdf.wikipathways.org/ identifier now resolves via HTTP with content negotiation: HTML for browsers, Turtle/JSON-LD/RDF-XML/N-Triples for machines.

Try it: click any IRI on the about page, or curl one with an Accept header.

https://rdf.wikipathways.org/about
https://github.com/wikipathways/wikipathways-iri-resolver

#LinkedData #FAIR #WikiPathways #RDF #Bioinformatics #SemanticWeb

hi, if you are using the #WikiPathways (@wikipathways) RDF, please send me a ping. In the coming months, changes are going to happen. To fix and improve some old designs, to add new functionality (like in the January release with more direct IRI links to other knowledge graphs).

Some things may break. And I want to know your use case. I like to get a shortlist of people who I want to give a heads-up and possible even consult on changes in the design and shapes

"QPX: Pathway analysis environment" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/m37f2_v1

"Building on our work at DBCLS BioHackathon 2023 (BH23), where we introduced QPX and promoted pathway modeling with WikiPathways (Pico et al., 2008) using PathVisio (Kutmon etal., 2015), we now focused on creating new pathway diagrams for diverse species and registering them in WikiPathways with functional annotations. In parallel, we deployed WikiPathways node data into Elasticsearch to enable fast and flexible search and integration of pathway information." https://osf.io/m37f2_v1

#biohackathon #BH25JP #wikipathways

@jerven I had not answered your question yet, and no patch needed, but just to answer it:

1. the original (theseus) code is here: https://github.com/wikipathways/GPML2RDF/tree/main which is used for https://sparql.wikipathways.org/

2. the new libGPML-based code is here: https://github.com/egonw/org.pathvisio.io.rdf which is used for https://plantmetwiki.bioinformatics.nl/

#plants #sparql #wikipathways

ah, nice to see the new @Codeberg and @bioconductor features in action! https://research-software-directory.org/software/rwikipathways

#openscience #bioinformatics #wikipathways

reflecting on my @biocurator Advanced Career Award nomination: "Curation is an essential part of doing research" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html

replies to this post become blog comments.

#biocuration #wikidata #wikipathways #citoOntology

curation is continuing, and if you really want to see what we do, check this feed of #WikiPathways edits: https://classic.wikipathways.org/index.php/Special:RecentPathwayChanges

I am looking into various simpler fixes from this page: https://www.wikipathways.org/sr24-curation/index2.html

Donations are still welcome! We are only at 820 euro now (the full SR24 is at 2.9 million euro for research into inherited metabolic disorders). Help us, help MetaKids, help the kids with metabolic disorders. https://www.npo3fm.nl/kominactie/acties/wikipathways-in-actie-voor-metakids

#sr24 #metakids

this is the fourth day of the Serious Request fundraising for #MetaKids of our #WikIPathways action. The DJs locked themselves up in the glass house in the Overijssel city Zwolle yesterday afternoon, the our @wikipathways now raised 730 euro :)

Highlights yesterday include:

- https://mastodon.social/@egonw/113674994239682083
- https://mastodon.social/@egonw/113674323267815212

Today we have the "WikiPathways in actie voor MetaKids" community day, and now heading to #Maastricht University!

#sr24 #metakids

@egonw@social.edu.nl een tweede update. om het makkelijker te maken om prioriteiten te stellen, zijn de curatie testen nu niet meer rood of groen, maar ook geel en oranje, afhankelijk van hoeveel er aan het pathway te verbeteren valt :)

#SR24 #WikiPathways #MetaKids

een eerste update. De eerste donaties zijn binnen (dank!).

De planning gaat goed door. Er is een extra persoon aangesloten, de websites zijn wat bijgewerkt, er is een lijst gemaakt met pathways uit een standaardwerk die we kunnen toevoegen, en ik heb de data curatie pijplijn opgezet: https://www.wikipathways.org/sr24-curation/ (die ook de pathways in #SBML vertaalt)

#WikiPathways #SR24

COVID-19 biological pathways from WikiPathways project

https://www.wikipathways.org/communities/covid19.html

#COVID #CoV #WikiPathways

Post-COVID neuroinflammation (WP5485)

This is a WikiPathways biological pathways diagram. This pathway visualizes the direct and indirect route of SARS-CoV-2-mediated neuroinflammation, which may induce dysautonomia, a major post-COVID symptom. The direct and indirect route are subdivided in a neurological and hematological, and a neurological and humoral route, respectively.

https://www.wikipathways.org/pathways/WP5485.html

#LongCOVID #WikiPathways #neuroinflammation #COVID

new blog post: "CiTO updates: Wakefield and WikiPathways" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/08/07/cito-updates.html

replies to this post become blog comments.

#wikipathways #CiTO #wikidata

your ideas about biological processes can be made FAIR in databases like @wikipathways and @reactome

People are using these pathways in their analyses of biological data, and some of those journal articles cite the specific pathways. #WikiPathways makes a reasonable attempt (particularly given the minimal funding) at tracking that.

I just added another three articles, citing some ~20~ish pathways

For example, https://wikipathways.org/instance/WP1601 has been cited at least 4 times

next week, Denise Slenter will defend her PhD thesis, and in the morning we are organizing a mini symposium With @schymane, @susancoort, Justin van der Hooft, Rachel Cavill, and Laura Steinbusch

If you want to join, you can register here: forms.gle/MsfrRomsiHSk2JPAA #metabolomics #wikipathways #chemistry

obligatory screenshot, and it's fast indeed #QLever #WikiPathways

new preprint: "Community curation of kinetic data to support metabolic models through semantic web technology" https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10418717 #wikipathways #rdf #disorders

De inschrijving voor het VHP4Safety mini-symposium rondom de promotie van Marvin Martens op 29 januari is geopend! https://lnkd.in/dmgHTbUH (Beperkt aantal plaatsen) Met sprekers: Chris Evelo (Marvin's promotor), Holly Mortensen, Anne Kienhuis, Joost Beltman en Mathieu Vinken. #VHP4Safety #AOPWiki #wikipathways

@Marvin's PhD thesis is the result of work in the #OpenRiskNet and #EUToxRisk projects