Use Proteopedia to advance your scientific career

This page presents some ideas on how to use Proteopedia to advance your scientific career.

Create customized molecular scenes with surprising easeCreate customized molecular scenes with surprising ease

To get started, see the section "Want To Contribute?" at the Main Page.

Examples of well-developed pages with many customized molecular scenes:

• Avian Influenza Neuraminidase, Tamiflu and Relenza
• Structure of E. coli DnaC helicase loader
• Gramicidin Channel in Lipid Bilayer

Share your molecular scenes with colleagues around the worldShare your molecular scenes with colleagues around the world

Simply email to your colleagues a link to the page you created with your customized molecular scenes. For example http://proteopedia.org/w/Lac_repressor. (Note that the mid-portion of a link to a Proteopedia page, "/wiki/index.php/", can be simplified to "/w/").

Enhance your Thesis or publications with live interactive 3D ComplementsEnhance your Thesis or publications with live interactive 3D Complements

These are similar to supplementary materials, but have important differences. Supplementary materials are copyrighted and frozen on the journal website. Interactive 3D Complements in Proteopedia are controlled by you, the author, and can be updated after publication if desired.

You need not worry about premature disclosure of your material. Pages in Proteopedia can be developed in advance of publication, yet hidden from everyone except the author, until the date of publication. See Proteopedia:Workbench for details.

There are many examples and further instructions at Interactive 3D Complements.

Explain structure-function relationships with unequalled clarityExplain structure-function relationships with unequalled clarity

• The helical nature of some molecules, the direction of helices, the difference between right- and left-handed, are more easily grasped thanks to an interactive structure. Example: Secondary structure.
• Illustrate any protein you are talking about with not just a simplistic geometric cartoon, but with its real shape and volume. Example: Lipase.
• Explaining specificity of a protein for binding a ligand is easier when you can show the pocket, the contacts, the distances between key atoms. Example: See the section Medical Implications at HIV-1 protease.
• Explaining that a protein changes conformation upon ligand binding: a description that needs understanding what conformation means, and imagination of what is the change involved, but you can just display the animation of such change. Example: see the green links about flap movement at HIV-1 protease. More examples.

Enhance your teaching with interactive 3D molecular scenesEnhance your teaching with interactive 3D molecular scenes

See Teaching Strategies Using Proteopedia.

Share your expertise in articles that invite collaborative contributions from othersShare your expertise in articles that invite collaborative contributions from others

All articles ("pages") in Proteopedia can be edited by anyone with a login account (unless the page has been explicitly protected by its author, see Help:Protected Pages). Proteopedia (and wikis in general) are designed to encourage collaborative authorship, so anyone who can improve an article or add to it is free to do so.

All contributors to an article are listed with their real full names at the bottom of the page. For example, eight people have contributed to HIV-1 protease, and nine to Avian Influenza Neuraminidase, Tamiflu and Relenza.

When you author or contribute to an article in Proteopedia, the presence of your name in the list of authors means that you take responsibility for the accuracy of your contributions, and that you get credit for your work (see below about DOI and citing pages in Proteopedia). In this respect, Proteopedia differs from Wikipedia, where authorship is usually anonymous, or under an alias.

Well-developed Proteopedia articles receive a DOI and become citable publicationsWell-developed Proteopedia articles receive a DOI and become citable publications

Well-developed articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), making them citable publications. Here is a list of articles that have been assigned DOI.