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WikiProject Molecular Biology
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[edit]Articles for deletion
- 12 Dec 2024 – Suppression of tumorigenicity 8 (ovarian) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jared BioE (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 08 Dec 2024 – Substrate adhesion molecules (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Innertuber40 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Asilvering (t · c) on 15 Dec 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
Good article nominees
- 16 Dec 2024 – Cephalization (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
- 20 May 2024 – Mating of yeast (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RowanJ LP (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 18 Dec 2024 – Protein (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 20 Nov 2024 – COVID-19 lab leak theory (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 14 Dec 2024 – Zoonotic origins of COVID-19 (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to COVID-19 zoonotic origin theory by 85.206.30.170 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Dec 2024 – N-Acetyl-γ-aminobutyraldehyde (talk · edit · hist) move request to 4-Acetamidobutanal by Mdewman6 (t · c) was moved to 4-Acetamidobutanal (talk · edit · hist) by SilverLocust (t · c) on 12 Dec 2024; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 03 Nov 2024 – Macromolecular assembly (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Macromolecular cages by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jul 2024 – S-methyl-5'-thioadenosine phosphorylase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to MTAP by LR.127 (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jul 2024 – Transmission electron cryomicroscopy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cryogenic_electron_microscopy by Niashervin (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 06 Dec 2024 – Dihedral angle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Sep 2024 – KIF1A (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2620:1D5:A00:4:C86A:1126:2736:27AF (t · c); see discussion
- 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
- 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
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Articles for creation
- 13 Dec 2024 – Draft:RASGEF1C (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Vaitvaitedits (t · c)
- 13 Dec 2024 – Draft:Chromosome 17 open reading frame 107 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Evansella (t · c)
- 11 Dec 2024 – Draft:Adam Antebi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SaraHazel87 (t · c)
- 27 Nov 2024 – Draft:Alexander Alexandrovich Baev (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AndreyMSUChem (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Optical Pooled Screening (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
- 14 Oct 2024 – Draft:NatB (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by LaKaSil (t · c) was moved to NatB (talk · edit · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 17 Dec 2024
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Wikimedia
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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
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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
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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
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| 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 | 3 | 5 | 21 | ||
| FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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16 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 61 | ||
| B | 53 | 210 | 272 | 314 | 2 | 851 | |
| C | 66 | 252 | 612 | 1,164 | 51 | 2,145 | |
| Start | 20 | 292 | 907 | 5,780 | 65 | 7,064 | |
| Stub | 4 | 223 | 17,817 | 34 | 18,078 | ||
| List | 4 | 7 | 35 | 62 | 242 | 20 | 370 |
| Category | 877 | 877 | |||||
| Disambig | 33 | 33 | |||||
| File | 29 | 29 | |||||
| Project | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 16 | 45 | 854 | 758 | 1,675 | |
| Template | 251 | 251 | |||||
| NA | 3 | 37 | 122 | 233 | 395 | ||
| Draft | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Assessed | 170 | 805 | 2,150 | 26,131 | 2,432 | 172 | 31,860 |
| Unassessed | 7 | 21 | 3 | 191 | 222 | ||
| Total | 170 | 805 | 2,157 | 26,152 | 2,435 | 363 | 32,082 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,049 | Ω = 5.49 | |||||
Genetics
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| 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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15 | 15 | |||||
| GA
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8 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 53 | ||
| B | 24 | 65 | 99 | 131 | 6 | 325 | |
| C | 25 | 108 | 320 | 588 | 96 | 1,137 | |
| Start | 3 | 66 | 349 | 1,291 | 263 | 1,972 | |
| Stub | 1 | 2 | 62 | 1,518 | 160 | 1,743 | |
| List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
| Category | 449 | 449 | |||||
| Disambig | 4 | 4 | |||||
| File | 27 | 27 | |||||
| Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 2 | 10 | 67 | 126 | 207 | |
| Template | 60 | 60 | |||||
| NA | 6 | 8 | 26 | 40 | |||
| Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 73 | 260 | 870 | 3,664 | 751 | 525 | 6,143 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 6 | 105 | 112 | |||
| Total | 73 | 260 | 871 | 3,670 | 751 | 630 | 6,255 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,947 | Ω = 4.95 | |||||
Computational Biology
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| 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 | 9 | 30 | 31 | 51 | 2 | 123 | |
| C | 9 | 42 | 63 | 128 | 7 | 249 | |
| Start | 1 | 39 | 143 | 495 | 11 | 689 | |
| Stub | 1 | 29 | 383 | 9 | 422 | ||
| List | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 | |||
| Category | 32 | 32 | |||||
| Project | 55 | 55 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 8 | 25 | 18 | 52 | ||
| Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Assessed | 20 | 125 | 296 | 1,108 | 117 | 29 | 1,695 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 20 | 127 | 296 | 1,108 | 117 | 32 | 1,700 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,372 | 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 | 9 | 42 | 4 | 55 | |||
| Start | 2 | 77 | 4 | 83 | |||
| Stub | 1,570 | 1 | 1,571 | ||||
| List | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Redirect | 78 | 9 | 87 | ||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,818 | 28 | 10 | 1,872 | |
| Total | 4 | 12 | 1,818 | 28 | 10 | 1,872 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,217 | Ω = 5.80 | |||||
How the rating scale works
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