About Oliver's mTOR Atlas

A curated, evidence-graded database of mTOR pathway research -- 442 studies and 162 cross-linked entities (82 with their own page), each claim traced to a primary source and labelled by the kind of study behind it. This page explains who curates it, how a study earns a place, what those labels do and don't guarantee, and how to report an error.

What this is

Oliver's mTOR Atlas is a narrow, hand-curated corpus -- not an attempt to index all of PubMed's roughly sixty thousand mTOR-related records, but a smaller set small enough that every entry can be read, graded and defended by one person, then connected by hand into a knowledge graph of genes, drugs, diseases and outcomes. Every claim carries an explicit evidence label naming the system it was established in (S = synthesis of human data, H = human study, A = animal model, M = molecular/in-vitro, R = review), together with the boundary conditions that claim was established under -- species, sex, tissue, dose, nutrient state, duration -- because that is where a finding stops being general. The corpus deliberately keeps negative results -- studies where a popular longevity compound did not extend lifespan -- with the same visibility as positive findings, and names what has not been tested at all.

Who curates it

Oliver Barton -- Creator & Curator, Prague, Czech Republic, age 15. A high school student with a self-directed research interest in mTOR signaling and evidence-based science curation, who built the Atlas to be the structured resource he wished existed when he started reading primary literature on the pathway: studies, mechanisms and honest evidence grades held side by side, rather than scattered across review articles.

There is no editorial board and no second reviewer.

Contact: oliver.barton1113(at)gmail.com · Bluesky: @oliver-barton.bsky.social.

Oliver's research focus → — the studies he is watching most closely right now, the frontier questions they grow out of, and clinical trials or preprints not yet in the graded corpus.

How a study gets in, what the Atlas does not guarantee, and how often it updates →

License & reuse

Content is CC BY 4.0 -- free to cite and reuse with attribution to "Oliver's mTOR Atlas". The dataset is archived and citable via Zenodo, concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22059963. Full identifiers, registrations (including bio.tools and FAIRsharing) and a ready-to-use citation are on the Data & Citation page.