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- 17 Nov 2024 – Dihydroxyphenylalanine ammonia-lyase (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Jo-Jo Eumerus (t · c) was closed as delete by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 24 Nov 2024; see discussion (6 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 26 Nov 2024 – Lyso- (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c): Redundant article; everything here is covered in the lysophospholipid article, which is properly sourced. The prefix itself is not notable and only one trivial mention could be found: [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016372582 ...
- 20 Nov 2024 – Multifunctional peptide (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 22 Nov 2024 was deleted
Redirects for discussion
- 11 Nov 2024 – Ro (antigen) (talk · edit · hist) →Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Nov 2024 – Autoantigen Ro (talk · edit · hist) →Calreticulin was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 20 May 2024 – Mating of yeast (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RowanJ LP (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 28 Nov 2024 – Lipid bilayer (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
- 26 Nov 2024 – Let-7 microRNA precursor (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to let-7 microRNA family by Jared BioE (t · c); 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
- 25 Sep 2024 – Integral monotopic protein (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Peripheral membrane protein by Willmskinner (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
- 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
- 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
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Articles for creation
- 27 Nov 2024 – Draft:Alexander Alexandrovich Baev (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AndreyMSUChem (t · c)
- 14 Oct 2024 – Draft:NatB (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LaKaSil (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Optical Pooled Screening (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
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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 | 313 | 2 | 850 | |
| C | 66 | 252 | 600 | 1,145 | 51 | 2,114 | |
| Start | 20 | 292 | 906 | 5,730 | 65 | 7,013 | |
| Stub | 4 | 237 | 17,881 | 33 | 18,155 | ||
| List | 4 | 7 | 35 | 55 | 240 | 20 | 361 |
| Category | 893 | 893 | |||||
| Disambig | 1 | 40 | 41 | ||||
| File | 22 | 22 | |||||
| Project | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Redirect | 2 | 19 | 81 | 975 | 898 | 1,975 | |
| Template | 307 | 307 | |||||
| NA | 2 | 22 | 24 | ||||
| Draft | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Assessed | 170 | 806 | 2,150 | 26,120 | 2,431 | 171 | 31,848 |
| Unassessed | 7 | 22 | 3 | 195 | 227 | ||
| Total | 170 | 806 | 2,157 | 26,142 | 2,434 | 366 | 32,075 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,129 | Ω = 5.50 | |||||
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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13 | 13 | |||||
| GA
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8 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 53 | ||
| B | 24 | 65 | 99 | 128 | 6 | 322 | |
| C | 25 | 108 | 315 | 582 | 94 | 1,124 | |
| Start | 3 | 66 | 352 | 1,287 | 264 | 1,972 | |
| Stub | 1 | 2 | 65 | 1,525 | 161 | 1,754 | |
| List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 37 | 5 | 62 | |
| Category | 459 | 459 | |||||
| Disambig | 4 | 4 | |||||
| File | 28 | 28 | |||||
| Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 2 | 16 | 75 | 133 | 228 | |
| Template | 66 | 66 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 73 | 260 | 871 | 3,657 | 747 | 525 | 6,133 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 6 | 105 | 112 | |||
| Total | 73 | 260 | 872 | 3,663 | 747 | 630 | 6,245 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,952 | Ω = 4.96 | |||||
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 | 126 | 7 | 247 | |
| Start | 1 | 39 | 143 | 497 | 11 | 691 | |
| Stub | 1 | 29 | 384 | 9 | 423 | ||
| List | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 | |||
| Category | 32 | 32 | |||||
| Project | 58 | 58 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 55 | ||
| Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Assessed | 20 | 125 | 296 | 1,109 | 117 | 29 | 1,696 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 20 | 127 | 296 | 1,109 | 117 | 32 | 1,701 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,380 | 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 | 42 | 4 | 54 | |||
| Start | 2 | 77 | 4 | 83 | |||
| Stub | 1 | 1,568 | 1 | 1,570 | |||
| List | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Redirect | 79 | 9 | 88 | ||||
| NA | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,816 | 31 | 10 | 1,873 | |
| Total | 4 | 12 | 1,816 | 31 | 10 | 1,873 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,207 | Ω = 5.80 | |||||
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