Mad Price Ball

Personal web page: http://www.madpriceball.net/

My background: I'm co-founder of Open Humans. I've got experience in free culture / open source, personal data sharing, participant-engaged research, genomics and health research. I'm also a former member of George Church's lab.

Science myths: /Science_myths

Work area: /Draft

Articles I've worked on

Some articles I've done major rewriting on:

Genetics - (5/27/07) at the moment the page is almost entirely content I added

(before - what the page was like before I started)

3/13/08 - Good Article
3/25/08 - Featured Article

Sex - (3/31/08) complete rewrite [1]
DNA replication - (3/5/08) complete rewrite [2]
Genetic recombination
Polymerase chain reaction
Quantification of nucleic acids
DNA melting - merged two articles, later added info on experimental applications of DNA melting
Epigenetics

Articles I made:

PCR optimization - I made this because I wanted to move optimization trivia away from the main PCR article
Stop codon - Made this page to cover material about amber & ochre mutations and suppressors
Acacia drepanolobium - The whistling thorn acacia, created the article after reading a cover-story article about it and symbiotic ants in Science.
Double-flowered - the double flower phenotype, earliest documented floral mutation and popular in many cultivated flowers

Stubs I made:

Domatia

List of articles I have added pictures of cats to

Article access statistics

Using [3], average number of times accessed per day in 2008/02:

article	access/day
Genetics	2,555
Polymerase chain reaction	2,545
DNA replication	1,997
DNA sequencing	912
Epigenetics	908
Genetic recombination	466
Stop codon	357
Human genetics	262
Arabidopsis thaliana	226
DNA melting	105
History of genetics	97
Acacia drepanolobium	6
Domatia	4

Images I've made

Some photos and SVG images I made with Inkscape... feel free to suggest other SVG images I could make!

The chemical structure of DNA
Griffith's experiment illustration
illustration of four PCR cycles
A Punnett square, cross between pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.
An image of the genetic code, DNA->RNA->protein
K12 E coli colonies on a plate of agar.
Diagram illustrating the Luria-Delbrück experiment, suggested by ragesoss.
Strip of eight PCR tubes with 100μl reactions.
Eukaryotic phylogenetic tree.
Another tree I tried making, currently used in Genetics article
Sticky-ended DNA ligation
Blunt-ended DNA ligation
Vegan food pyramid, based on ADA recommendations
DNA replication fork with 5'->3' synthesis shown
DNA polymerase extending & proofreading diagram
Rolling circle replication
ABC model of flower development