Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology
WikiProject Molecular Biology
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Good article nominees
- 20 May 2024 – Mating of yeast (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RowanJ LP (t · c); see discussion
Featured article reviews
- 09 Feb 2024 – Exosome complex (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Pereoptic (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 23 Jun 2024 – Michael Levitt (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Michael Levitt (biophysicist) by Joeykai (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 21 Jun 2024 – Proofreading (biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kinetic proofreading by Cosmia Nebula (t · c); see discussion
- 29 May 2024 – Fatty acyl-CoA esters (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Acyl-CoA by DeemDeem52 (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Apr 2024 – Chromosome theory of cancer (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Chromosome instability by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2024 – Pparg coactivator 1 alpha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to PPARGC1A by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Dec 2023 – Spiral bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Dec 2023 – Coccus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Dec 2023 – Bacillus (shape) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Nov 2023 – Maltase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Α-Glucosidase by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Jun 2024 – Transmission electron cryomicroscopy (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Cryogenic electron microscopy by Benhisoka (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be split
- 06 May 2024 – Tether (cell biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Bluescreening (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jan 2024 – Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2023 – T cell (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Feb 2023 – Formylation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Nov 2022 – Platelet (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Darkskysunflowers (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Aug 2022 – Epidermal growth factor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kupirijo (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jun 2022 – Hypervariable region (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by KingisNitro (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Dec 2020 – Pilin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Nov 2020 – Holocarboxylase synthetase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Sep 2019 – Protein kinase B (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by BrownHairedGirl (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 09 Jun 2024 – Draft:Balon (protein) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mrfoogles (t · c)
- 13 May 2024 – Draft:Paola Marignani (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ilovearchives (t · c)
- 18 Jul 2023 – Draft:Catalog of MCA Control Patterns (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rhodydog (t · c)
- 12 Jul 2023 – Draft:American Gene Technologies (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Khoff352 (t · c)
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Projects and Partnerships
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Wikimedia[edit]
WikiData Molecular Biology - ensuring accuracy of molecular biology items in WikiData
Gene Wiki - create and improve articles on all human genes in Wikipedia
Societies[edit]
- ISCB article competition - an annual Wikipedia article competition in association with the International Society for Computational Biology: entries for the 9th edition of the competition are open from 26 Aug 2019 - 15 May 2020.
- ISMB-ECCB Editathons - annual Wikipedia writing workshops at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology conference.
Institutions[edit]
RCSB Protein DataBank - In 2014, WikiProject Biophysics persuaded David Goodsell and the Protein DataBank release all Molecule of the Month images under CC BY open licenses.
Journals[edit]
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PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS Genetics - publishing v:PLOS Topic Pages, where articles in those journals are written in a Wikipedia style and copied over after publication in the journal.
Gene - publishing Gene Wiki Reviews, where review articles on gene families in Gene have an accompanying Wikipedia article written by the same authors.
WikiJournal of Science - putting new and existing Wikipedia articles through academic peer review and publication.
Metrics
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MCB[edit]
| MCB articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
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9 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 22 | ||
| FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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16 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 60 | ||
| B | 52 | 208 | 272 | 300 | 2 | 834 | |
| C | 68 | 249 | 589 | 1,125 | 49 | 2,080 | |
| Start | 21 | 298 | 904 | 5,628 | 62 | 6,913 | |
| Stub | 4 | 253 | 18,005 | 32 | 18,294 | ||
| List | 4 | 7 | 33 | 52 | 245 | 18 | 359 |
| Category | 1 | 1 | 3 | 887 | 892 | ||
| Disambig | 10 | 31 | 41 | ||||
| File | 34 | 34 | |||||
| Project | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Redirect | 2 | 18 | 79 | 971 | 888 | 1,958 | |
| Template | 1 | 305 | 306 | ||||
| NA | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Draft | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 173 | 807 | 2,151 | 26,114 | 2,398 | 163 | 31,806 |
| Unassessed | 6 | 19 | 1 | 189 | 215 | ||
| Total | 173 | 807 | 2,157 | 26,133 | 2,399 | 352 | 32,021 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,277 | Ω = 5.51 | |||||
Genetics[edit]
| Genetics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| FA
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5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
| FM
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6 | 6 | |||||
| GA
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8 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 52 | ||
| B | 24 | 64 | 98 | 123 | 6 | 315 | |
| C | 25 | 109 | 315 | 578 | 88 | 1,115 | |
| Start | 3 | 66 | 352 | 1,280 | 256 | 1,957 | |
| Stub | 1 | 1 | 66 | 1,537 | 168 | 1,773 | |
| List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
| Category | 438 | 438 | |||||
| Disambig | 5 | 5 | |||||
| File | 35 | 35 | |||||
| Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 2 | 14 | 71 | 131 | 220 | |
| Template | 65 | 65 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 73 | 259 | 869 | 3,651 | 723 | 518 | 6,093 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 3 | 97 | 101 | |||
| Total | 73 | 259 | 870 | 3,654 | 723 | 615 | 6,194 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,927 | Ω = 4.97 | |||||
Computational Biology[edit]
| Computational Biology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| GA
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1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||
| B | 8 | 30 | 31 | 50 | 2 | 121 | |
| C | 10 | 42 | 62 | 125 | 7 | 246 | |
| Start | 1 | 39 | 143 | 497 | 11 | 691 | |
| Stub | 1 | 29 | 383 | 9 | 422 | ||
| List | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 | |||
| Category | 1 | 30 | 31 | ||||
| Project | 58 | 58 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 55 | ||
| Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Assessed | 20 | 125 | 298 | 1,106 | 116 | 29 | 1,694 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Total | 20 | 127 | 298 | 1,106 | 116 | 31 | 1,698 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,364 | Ω = 4.93 | |||||
Gene Wiki[edit]
| Gene Wiki articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | ||
| B | 1 | 50 | 1 | 52 | |||
| C | 8 | 40 | 5 | 53 | |||
| Start | 2 | 71 | 7 | 80 | |||
| Stub | 1 | 1,574 | 2 | 1,577 | |||
| List | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Redirect | 77 | 10 | 87 | ||||
| Template | 1 | 1 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Other | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,812 | 33 | 15 | 1,876 | |
| Total | 4 | 12 | 1,812 | 33 | 15 | 1,876 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,230 | Ω = 5.81 | |||||
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