WikiPathways is a database of biological pathways maintained by and for the scientific community.

Prefix

wikipathways

Keywords

biological regulation drug interaction epidemiology genetic interaction molecular interaction pathway pathway model protein interaction reaction data signaling virology

License

CC0-1.0

Links

Homepage @wikipathways@fosstodon.org @WikiPathways

Contact

Egon Willighagen   0000-0001-7542-0286   egonw

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in WikiPathways should match this regular expression:
^WP\d{1,5}(\_r\d+)?$

Example Local Unique Identifier

WP732   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from WikiPathways should match this regular expression:
^wikipathways:WP\d{1,5}(\_r\d+)?$

Example CURIE

wikipathways:WP732

Publications

• 2024 WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database
• 2021 WikiPathways: connecting communities
• 2018 WikiPathways: a multifaceted pathway database bridging metabolomics to other omics research
• 2015 WikiPathways: capturing the full diversity of pathway knowledge
• 2011 WikiPathways: building research communities on biological pathways
• 2008 WikiPathways: pathway editing for the people

Contributors

• contributor Egon Willighagen   0000-0001-7542-0286   egonw

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 mappings to external registries for this resource with 7 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://identifiers.org/wikipathways/$1

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE wikipathways:WP732 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.