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Getting Started
- First time here? Learn the basics by either watching the narrated videos in the Proteopedia Video Guide or follow Getting Started in Proteopedia.
- The Primer guides you step-by-step through creating your first molecular scene. There is also a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough of a Proteopedia workshop.
- We recommend that the first page you try editing in Proteopedia should be a Sandbox page, as explained in Getting Started in Proteopedia. Please see Help:Sandboxes for an explanation, and instructions on how to create a Sandbox page for your own use.
- For editing help, try Help:Editing, which explains, among other things, how to easily insert references to scientific literature citations using PubMed ID numbers, without typing the reference itself! See also How to Make a Page.
Creating Molecular Scenes
- For step-by-step instructions on creating example scenes, try Proteopedia:DIY:Scenes.
- If you save a page and get XML Error: Mismatched tag at line 1, don't worry, you can recover your page: see Help:Errors.
- For simple recipes for including Flash, Imagemap, Floating quote Box, Movies (.mov, .mpeg) etc., try Proteopedia:Cookbook.
- If your molecular scenes require a model that is not published in the Protein Data Bank, see Help:Uploading molecules. See also Biological Unit: Showing and instructions for hiding portions of a model at Getting Started.
Teaching and Journal Complements
- For Teaching with Proteopedia, see Teaching Strategies Using Proteopedia and Teaching_Scenes, Tutorials, and Educators' Pages
- For preparing interactive 3D complements to journal publications (similar to supplementary materials), please see Interactive 3D Complements in Proteopedia. For hiding these until the date of publication, please see Proteopedia:Workbench.
Protecting Pages
- If you would like to protect a personal page from editing by others, please see Proteopedia:Policy and Help:Protected_Pages.
Other Topics
- For searching help, try Help:Searching.
- Proteopedia requires Java, but Java may be a security risk. Please see How to be as safe as possible with Java.
- Proteopedia:Guidelines for Ethical Writing lists guidelines for avoiding plagiarism, for content attribution, and for re-use of images.
- For examples of Proteopedia articles in non-English languages, and for the rules and policies for such articles, please see Proteopedia:Languages. For instructions for translating articles to other languages, see Help:Language Translation. See also Text Directionality.
- To show a static image (jpeg, png, gif) file in a Proteopedia page, first you need to be sure you have the right to share the image and allow unrestricted re-use by others (see Proteopedia:Terms of Service). If yes, then you need to upload the image into Proteopedia: see Video 5: Uploading an image or file and adding an image to a page. For help on formatting the image within the page, see Wiki markup: Images or for even more detail, Wikipedia:Extended image syntax.
Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors (what is this?)
Eric Martz, Jaime Prilusky, Karsten Theis, Joel L. Sussman, Angel Herraez, Eran Hodis, Wayne Decatur
