CAZypedia needs your help! We have many unassigned GH, PL, CE, AA, GT, and CBM pages in need of Authors and Responsible Curators.
Scientists at all career stages, including students, are welcome to contribute to CAZypedia. Read more here, and in the 10th anniversary article in Glycobiology.
New to the CAZy classification? Read this first.
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Consider attending the 15th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting in Ghent, 5-8 May 2024.
CAZypedia:About
General
CAZypedia is an encyclopedic resource on carbohydrate active enzymes. It is inspired by, and meant to be a logical extension of, the CAZy database, which "describes the families of structurally-related catalytic and carbohydrate-binding modules (or functional domains) of enzymes that degrade, modify, or create glycosidic bonds."
CAZypedia openly welcomes contributions of new articles and editorial corrections from persons actively engaged in glycoscience research. A Board of Curators is responsible for setting editorial policy and ensuring that a high standard of articles is met.
Content
Although meant to be truly dynamic, in the spirit of the constantly evolving Wikipedia, the first incarnation of CAZypedia will focus on cataloging the structural and mechanistic "firsts" in each of the CAZy glycoside hydrolase (GH) families. In particular, primary literature will be cited which gives the first identification of enzyme active site residues, catalytic mechanism, three dimensional structure, or other important work which defines catalysis in a GH family or subfamily. CAZypedia is not meant to be a direct repetition of the CAZy database, nor of the GenBank and UniProt databases, but a distillation of the key work in the field.
Editorial policies
The editorial policies of CAZypedia are inspired by the best aspects of Wikipedia and, in particular, Citizendium. CAZypedia will strive to be a dynamic, community-based effort, while at the same time balancing a high level of curation and editorial input to produce quality content.
In this respect, CAZypedia directly incorporates many of [Citizendium's Fundamental Policies]. For the purposes of CAZypedia, we have adapted these policies as follows:
More guidelines for CAZypedia contributors
These pages contain more information on Wikipedia's guidelines, which are recommended reading before authoring or editing CAZypedia:
User accounts
You must create a user account before you can contribute to or edit CAZypedia.
- We request that users list their full name when creating an account on CAZypedia.
- After creating an account, we also request that all users fill in some biographical information about themselves on their user page. Your user page can be accessed by clicking your username at the top of any CAZypedia page after you have logged in.]
- It is strongly recommended to read the help pages on writing pages and inserting references before starting to write/edit for CAZypedia.
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