WikiPathways was founded in 2008, in the year I left Wageningen (and we Nijmegen) and moved to Uppsala, Sweden. When we dediced to move back to The Netherlands in 2012, I got to opportunity to join the Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT) and work on Open PHACTS. I had visited the group in March 2011 because I had a COST action workshop near Maastricht (about nanoQSAR) and the bioinformatics group did WikiPathways.