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WikiProject Molecular Biology
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- 21 Feb 2025 – Ubuntu-Med (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Helpful Raccoon (t · c): Fails WP:NSOFT by a mile: I could only find one trivial mention of this software/"community" in reliable sources, let alone significant coverage
- 22 Feb 2025 – List of glycoside hydrolase families (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Darkskysunflowers (t · c) was deproded by Christian75 (t · c) on 25 Feb 2025
- 20 Feb 2025 – Anti-centromere antibodies (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by EllieDellie (t · c) was redirected to Antinuclear antibody#Anti-centromere antibodies (talk · edit · hist)
Redirects for discussion
- 12 Jan 2025 – Vitamin C2 (talk · edit · hist) →Choline was RfDed by DM5Pedia (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 23 Dec 2024 – CYP4F2 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion
- 20 Dec 2024 – Prokaryote (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 16 Feb 2025 – Cultivar (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 26 Feb 2025 – Genetic studies on Filipinos (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Genetic and anthropometric studies on Filipinos by Rene Bascos Sarabia Jr. (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 14 Feb 2025 – Antagomir (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Anti-miRNA oligonucleotides by D6dmso (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jan 2025 – Zoonotic origins of COVID-19 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Origin of SARS-CoV-2 by Tiggerjay (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Nov 2024 – Macromolecular assembly (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Macromolecular cages by Smokefoot (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
Articles to be split
- 22 Feb 2025 – Cloning (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Dec 2024 – Dihedral angle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
- 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
- 26 Dec 2020 – Pilin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
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Projects and Partnerships
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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 | 15 | 13 | 60 | ||
| B | 52 | 212 | 273 | 318 | 3 | 858 | |
| C | 67 | 255 | 614 | 1,171 | 52 | 2,159 | |
| Start | 20 | 288 | 911 | 5,788 | 67 | 7,074 | |
| Stub | 3 | 218 | 17,804 | 35 | 18,060 | ||
| List | 4 | 7 | 35 | 62 | 242 | 20 | 370 |
| Category | 894 | 894 | |||||
| Disambig | 42 | 42 | |||||
| File | 37 | 37 | |||||
| Project | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 19 | 82 | 977 | 899 | 1,979 | |
| Template | 307 | 307 | |||||
| NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Other | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Assessed | 170 | 805 | 2,153 | 26,138 | 2,432 | 177 | 31,875 |
| Unassessed | 7 | 23 | 3 | 179 | 212 | ||
| Total | 170 | 805 | 2,160 | 26,161 | 2,435 | 356 | 32,087 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,066 | Ω = 5.49 | |||||
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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15 | 15 | |||||
| GA
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8 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 54 | ||
| B | 24 | 65 | 99 | 131 | 6 | 325 | |
| C | 25 | 109 | 321 | 588 | 98 | 1,141 | |
| Start | 3 | 65 | 350 | 1,290 | 265 | 1,973 | |
| Stub | 1 | 2 | 62 | 1,520 | 159 | 1,744 | |
| List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
| Category | 459 | 459 | |||||
| Disambig | 4 | 4 | |||||
| File | 27 | 27 | |||||
| Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 2 | 16 | 75 | 135 | 230 | |
| Template | 66 | 66 | |||||
| NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 73 | 260 | 872 | 3,666 | 752 | 528 | 6,151 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 6 | 105 | 112 | |||
| Total | 73 | 260 | 873 | 3,672 | 752 | 633 | 6,263 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,976 | Ω = 4.95 | |||||
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 | 128 | 7 | 249 | |
| Start | 1 | 39 | 143 | 494 | 11 | 688 | |
| Stub | 1 | 29 | 383 | 9 | 422 | ||
| List | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 | |||
| Category | 32 | 32 | |||||
| Project | 59 | 59 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 55 | ||
| Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Other | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Assessed | 20 | 125 | 297 | 1,107 | 119 | 29 | 1,697 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 20 | 127 | 297 | 1,107 | 119 | 32 | 1,702 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,367 | 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 | 9 | 43 | 4 | 56 | |||
| Start | 2 | 77 | 4 | 83 | |||
| Stub | 1,568 | 1 | 1,569 | ||||
| List | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Redirect | 79 | 9 | 88 | ||||
| NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Other | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,817 | 28 | 10 | 1,871 | |
| Total | 4 | 12 | 1,817 | 28 | 10 | 1,871 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,209 | Ω = 5.80 | |||||
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