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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) was PRODed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c): A WP:DICTDEF and not even an accurate one...the term "multifunctional peptide" is used to mean many different things in biochemistry, including the definition given but also peptides that have more than one function, peptides chemically mod ... and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 22 Nov 2024
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
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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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 | 598 | 1,143 | 51 | 2,110 | |
| Start | 20 | 292 | 908 | 5,731 | 65 | 7,016 | |
| Stub | 4 | 237 | 17,879 | 33 | 18,153 | ||
| 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 | 3 | 24 | 27 | ||||
| Draft | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Assessed | 170 | 806 | 2,150 | 26,118 | 2,433 | 171 | 31,848 |
| Unassessed | 7 | 22 | 3 | 195 | 227 | ||
| Total | 170 | 806 | 2,157 | 26,140 | 2,436 | 366 | 32,075 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,116 | 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 | 580 | 93 | 1,121 | |
| Start | 3 | 66 | 352 | 1,289 | 265 | 1,975 | |
| Stub | 1 | 2 | 65 | 1,525 | 161 | 1,754 | |
| List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
| 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 | 3,658 | 747 | 525 | 6,134 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 6 | 105 | 112 | |||
| Total | 73 | 260 | 872 | 3,664 | 747 | 630 | 6,246 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,955 | Ω = 4.96 | |||||
Computational Biology
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| Computational Biology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| 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 | 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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| 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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