Event:Computational Biology ISCB 2025 Liverpool

Welcome!

Wikipedia ISCB Committee

Welcome to the ISMB/ECCB Wikipedia Editathon 2025. We will hold a series of welcome workshops in advance of the in-person editing event. You will receive details on the welcome workshops via the email address you signed up with

Motivation

The ISCB Wikipedia Committee aims to improve and expand Wikipedia content related to bioinformatics and computational biology, making high-quality scientific knowledge accessible to the global community. Computational biology is evolving rapidly, with innovations such as AlphaFold for protein structure prediction and advances in genomics. Bringing these breakthroughs to the public through Wikipedia requires expert contributions. The Computational Biology taskforce has identified over 1,500 English language articles that it considers within the scope of computational biology and bioinformatics, forming a foundation for the ISCB community's involvement. Our goal is to enhance the English Wikipedia by engaging domain experts and improve the Spanish Wikipedia to provide high-quality resources for Latin American students. As part of the ISCB Wikipedia Committee’s volunteer efforts, we have already created a prioritized list of Computational Biology articles that are missing in other languages.

Committee members

Editathon facilitators:

• Alastair Kilpatrick, Bioinformatician at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh, UK
• Nelly Sélem-Mojica, Professor of Bioinformatics at National Autonomous University of Mexico

Other committee members:

• Farzana Rahman, Lecturer in Computer Science at Kingston University, London
• Lonnie Welch, Stuckey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio University
• Tülay Karakulak, PhD student at Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich
• Pradeep Eranti, PhD student at Université Paris Cité
• Megha Hegde, PhD student at Kingston University London
• Nicolas Näpflin, PhD student at Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich