Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Cell Signaling

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**Key components of the MAPK/ERK pathway**, by JWSchmidt.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Cell Signaling. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title

WikiProject on Cell Signaling

Scope

This project is dedicated to improving and organising the Wikipedia articles on cell signaling to provide a convinient 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: Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology#Protein topics navigation boxes.
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

Parentage

This is a daughter project of WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology

Similar WikiProjects

WikiProject Clinical medicine and WikiProject Drugs may be relevant to this project.

Participants

Name	Talk page	Special interests
Peter Znamenskiy	Talk	Cell culture and adult stem cells
Rockpocket	Talk	G-protein coupled receptors
David Iberri	Talk	Embryogenesis (especially nervous system development)
John Schmidt	Talk	illustrations
Gacggt	Talk	Skeletal Muscle biology, Akt pathway, NF-kappaB pathway, some GPCRs, Neurotrophins, MuSK, agrin, Neuromuscular junction, etc
Kohlasz	Talk	Chemotaxis
EquationDoc	Talk	Pathways involved in cancer prevention and formation
JE.at.UWO	Talk	Immunology, development, endocrinology and reproductive physiology.
Biochemza	Talk	Immunology, neutrophils, tyrosine kinase signaling, calcium signaling

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

For individual proteins, see suggestions in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology#Structures

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

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Projects

Tasks

Complete - build a sample pathway article: Hedgehog signaling pathway
Complete - resolve the Cell signaling/Signal transduction merger, no merge
Compile list of existing cell signaling articles - please add articles to the list below
Design a convention for drawing pathway diagrams

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.