WikiProject Molecular Biology
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- 09 Aug 2024 – 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Hydromania (t · c) was closed as keep by BusterD (t · c) on 04 Sep 2024; see discussion (18 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 30 Aug 2024 – Breast cancer–related regulator of tp53 (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Folkezoft (t · c) was deleted
Redirects for discussion
- 05 Sep 2024 – Double digest (talk · edit · hist) →Restriction digest was RfDed by Kinopiko (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 02 Sep 2024 – Vavilovian mimicry (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
- 01 Sep 2024 – Tumor necrosis factor (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by AdeptLearner123 (t · c); see discussion
- 20 May 2024 – Mating of yeast (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RowanJ LP (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 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
- 15 Jul 2024 – Korean ethnic nationalism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Korean nationalism by 00101984hjw (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
- 11 Mar 2024 – Pparg coactivator 1 alpha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to PPARGC1A by Klbrain (t · c); 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
- 06 Sep 2024 – Draft:Whey protein isolate (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Scope creep (t · c)
- 03 Sep 2024 – Draft:Antentor Hinton, Jr. (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kneikirk (t · c)
- 30 Jul 2024 – Draft:WDR88 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Oj0124 (t · c)
- 29 Jul 2024 – Draft:Coiled-coil domain containing 97 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kkppz (t · c)
- 04 Jun 2024 – Draft:James B. Potash (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Archiemcdewitt (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Leucine rich repeat containing 27 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
- 20 Aug 2024 – Draft:Enterosoma genetic code (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Kpwilli (t · c) was accepted to Enterosoma genetic code (talk · edit · hist) by Pygos (t · c) on 09 Sep 2024
- 24 Jul 2024 – Draft:Biotium (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Jonibologni (t · c) was declined by Reconrabbit (t · c) on 09 Sep 2024
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Projects and Partnerships
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Wikimedia
editWikiData 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
editRCSB 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
editPLOS 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 | |
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9 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 21 | ||
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1 | 1 | |||||
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16 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 60 | ||
B | 53 | 208 | 271 | 302 | 2 | 836 | |
C | 66 | 252 | 596 | 1,132 | 50 | 2,096 | |
Start | 20 | 294 | 903 | 5,674 | 65 | 6,956 | |
Stub | 4 | 248 | 17,948 | 33 | 18,233 | ||
List | 4 | 7 | 33 | 52 | 245 | 19 | 360 |
Category | 1 | 1 | 3 | 889 | 894 | ||
Disambig | 10 | 31 | 41 | ||||
File | 34 | 34 | |||||
Project | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Redirect | 2 | 19 | 81 | 973 | 891 | 1,966 | |
Template | 1 | 306 | 307 | ||||
NA | 10 | 1 | 11 | ||||
Draft | 2 | 2 | |||||
Assessed | 171 | 807 | 2,153 | 26,122 | 2,404 | 169 | 31,826 |
Unassessed | 7 | 20 | 3 | 195 | 225 | ||
Total | 171 | 807 | 2,160 | 26,142 | 2,407 | 364 | 32,051 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,196 | 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 | |
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5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
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1 | 1 | |||||
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6 | 6 | |||||
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8 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 52 | ||
B | 24 | 65 | 98 | 125 | 7 | 319 | |
C | 25 | 108 | 314 | 581 | 92 | 1,120 | |
Start | 3 | 66 | 353 | 1,278 | 259 | 1,959 | |
Stub | 1 | 1 | 66 | 1,533 | 167 | 1,768 | |
List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
Category | 457 | 457 | |||||
Disambig | 5 | 5 | |||||
File | 35 | 35 | |||||
Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 2 | 15 | 73 | 131 | 223 | |
Template | 65 | 65 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 73 | 259 | 870 | 3,652 | 742 | 525 | 6,121 |
Unassessed | 1 | 5 | 105 | 111 | |||
Total | 73 | 259 | 871 | 3,657 | 742 | 630 | 6,232 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,939 | 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 | |
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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 | 496 | 11 | 690 | |
Stub | 1 | 29 | 383 | 9 | 422 | ||
List | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 | |||
Category | 1 | 31 | 32 | ||||
Project | 58 | 58 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 55 | ||
Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Other | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Assessed | 20 | 125 | 298 | 1,108 | 116 | 29 | 1,696 |
Unassessed | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
Total | 20 | 127 | 298 | 1,108 | 116 | 32 | 1,701 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,369 | Ω = 4.93 |
Gene Wiki
editGene Wiki articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | ||
B | 1 | 50 | 1 | 52 | |||
C | 8 | 41 | 4 | 53 | |||
Start | 2 | 76 | 3 | 81 | |||
Stub | 1 | 1,574 | 1,575 | ||||
List | 4 | 4 | |||||
Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
Redirect | 77 | 9 | 86 | ||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 9 | 9 | |||||
Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,818 | 34 | 8 | 1,876 | |
Total | 4 | 12 | 1,818 | 34 | 8 | 1,876 | |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,223 | Ω = 5.81 |
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