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+This introductory workshop shows you why and how to use pathways to organize and convey information, and introduce you to the tools you’ll need to create your own pathways.
 
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+An introduction to Pathway Modeling for Biologists. We will being with slides on "why" and "how" to use pathways in research and paper figures. Before the hands-on section, we will provide an overview of pathway drawing, covering tools and curation steps, including PathVisio, WikiPathways, Curation Guidelines and the WikiPathways Curation Process. The hands-on portion will get you familiar with pathway drawing tools. You will then build your own pathways model based on a figure. You can use your own pathway of interest in this exercise.