Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology
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- 28 Mar 2024 – Histamine N-methyltransferase (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); see discussion
Categories for discussion
- 16 Apr 2024 – Category:Songs against racism and xenophobia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 17 Nov 2023 – CYP4F2 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion
Peer reviews
- 20 Mar 2024 – Domestic rabbit (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Reconrabbit (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 09 Apr 2024 – 3α-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to AKR1C4 by SilverLocust (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 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
- 03 Sep 2023 – Phosphorylcholine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Phosphocholine by Hammer q (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Apr 2024 – S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Adenosylhomocysteinase by Composingliger (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be split
- 08 Mar 2024 – Cytochrome P450 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jan 2024 – Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Sep 2023 – Institutional racism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Shoreranger (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
- 04 Mar 2024 – Draft:Mikhail E. Nasrallah (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ashoak2023 (t · c)
- 19 Feb 2024 – Draft:Baris Tursun (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gitte bei Medienservice UHH Bio (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 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 22 | ||
| FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
 GA | 16 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 60 | ||
| B | 52 | 206 | 274 | 300 | 2 | 834 | |
| C | 68 | 249 | 583 | 1,111 | 46 | 2,057 | |
| Start | 21 | 299 | 905 | 5,603 | 61 | 6,889 | |
| Stub | 4 | 256 | 18,042 | 31 | 18,333 | ||
| List | 4 | 7 | 33 | 52 | 246 | 18 | 360 |
| Category | 1 | 1 | 3 | 884 | 889 | ||
| Disambig | 10 | 31 | 41 | ||||
| File | 34 | 34 | |||||
| Project | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Redirect | 2 | 18 | 79 | 970 | 886 | 1,955 | |
| Template | 1 | 293 | 294 | ||||
| Draft | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 173 | 806 | 2,151 | 26,109 | 2,381 | 158 | 31,778 |
| Unassessed | 7 | 16 | 1 | 136 | 160 | ||
| Total | 173 | 806 | 2,158 | 26,125 | 2,382 | 294 | 31,938 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,299 | Ω = 5.51 | |||||
Genetics[edit]
| Genetics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| FA | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
| FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
| GA | 8 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 50 | ||
| B | 24 | 62 | 99 | 123 | 6 | 314 | |
| C | 25 | 108 | 315 | 576 | 87 | 1,111 | |
| Start | 3 | 66 | 352 | 1,280 | 255 | 1,956 | |
| Stub | 1 | 1 | 66 | 1,543 | 167 | 1,778 | |
| List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
| Category | 437 | 437 | |||||
| Disambig | 5 | 5 | |||||
| File | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 2 | 14 | 69 | 131 | 218 | |
| Template | 65 | 65 | |||||
| Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Assessed | 73 | 256 | 869 | 3,650 | 722 | 515 | 6,085 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | 3 | 56 | 61 | ||
| Total | 73 | 257 | 870 | 3,653 | 722 | 571 | 6,146 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,923 | 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 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||
| B | 8 | 30 | 31 | 49 | 118 | ||
| C | 10 | 42 | 63 | 125 | 240 | ||
| Start | 1 | 39 | 143 | 494 | 1 | 678 | |
| Stub | 1 | 29 | 383 | 3 | 416 | ||
| List | 4 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 46 | ||
| Category | 1 | 30 | 31 | ||||
| Project | 58 | 58 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 55 | ||
| Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Assessed | 24 | 121 | 298 | 1,102 | 114 | 4 | 1,663 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 24 | 123 | 298 | 1,102 | 114 | 5 | 1,666 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,230 | Ω = 4.94 | |||||
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 | 39 | 5 | 52 | |||
| Start | 2 | 69 | 6 | 77 | |||
| Stub | 1 | 1,576 | 2 | 1,579 | |||
| List | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Redirect | 77 | 10 | 87 | ||||
| Template | 1 | 1 | |||||
| NA | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Other | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,811 | 31 | 14 | 1,872 | |
| Total | 4 | 12 | 1,811 | 31 | 14 | 1,872 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,223 | Ω = 5.81 | |||||
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Related WikiProjects
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WikiProject Molecular Biology is one of the main groups within WikiProject Biology and covers sub-cellular biology. However, it inevitably has plenty of overlap with wither Biology projects as well as several other Science projects.
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474 articles in common - WikiProject Medicine/Medical genetics task force (view related)
170 articles in common - WikiProject Biography/Science and academia (view related)
257 articles in common - WikiProject Microbiology (view related)
85 articles in common - WikiProject Evolutionary biology (view related)
132 articles in common - WikiProject Human Genetic History (view related)
123 articles in common - WikiProject Articles for creation (view related)
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