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Recruit more molecular and cell biologists (and their students) to contribute to Wikipedia. Categorization of articles about proteins. See List of proteins. Organizing and upgrading articles about proteins. See the section on infoboxes. List of MCB articles by quality — adopt an article to work on! Other Notes Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Collaboration of the Month needs more input!

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:22, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Add to watch list !!

I have made a new article on genetics... could i get all to add the article to your watch list! Indigenous Amerindian genetics we need to watch for vandalism..new with no watchers .. Tks guys!!!!!

List of vegetable fats

→ Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry#List of vegetable fats.

Proposal to include model organism data

A request for comment has been made at the above link. Your input is welcome. Boghog (talk) 20:55, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Protein homology

Per Talk:Protein homology#discussion1. I'm inclined to agree regarding the need for a distinction, assuming this isn't already covered in another article. It also appears that we don't have an article that talks about structural homology at all really. Although we do seem to have an article on homology modeling, perhaps portions of that could be spun off into a putative structural homology (protein) article? (+)H₃N-Protein\Chemist-CO₂(-) 16:26, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Section ordering

Hi, Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject. Thanks for all the work you do. I have one thing I'd request. I've noticed that many of the articles under the scope of this group have problems with the ordering of the standard "appendix" sections (i.e., "See also", "References", "Further reading", "External links", and so on). Generally those sections go in the order just given. The MOS:APPENDIX page gives further information as well as the rational. I do mostly just MOS:APPENDIX edits and over the years, I have noticed that the chemical, human protein, and genetics articles have the order of the appendices incorrect more than average. Just a moment or two of member's time to read the MOS:APPENDIX page may help to eliminate this issue. Jason Quinn (talk) 22:17, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I fixed it for Folding@home, and perhaps I'll take the time to see about some others. Best, Jesse V. (talk) 07:13, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Scanned all FA/A/GA-class articles. Out of the 59 articles I looked at, I made 5 fixes. Thus this is narrowed down to B, C, Start, or Stub articles, of which there are a lot. Care to narrow it down? Is there a bot for this or something? Jesse V. (talk) 07:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for a child WikiProject Biophysics

I'm running a WikiPedia/Wikimedia Commons workshop at the Biophysical Society in a couple of weeks, with expert help from User:Phoebe and sponsorship by the Education and the Early Careers committees of the society. We anticipate a large audience -- perhaps 50-75 working scientists who want to help edit articles and contribute media, and possibly involve their students also. I have truly enjoyed my own Wiki participation, and spreading this idea is one of things I'd like to accomplish as incoming president of the society.

We are thinking about starting a new WikiProject Biophysics as a subproject under Molecular and Cellular Bioogy to provide a collaborative workspace for them and future biophysicists, but would really appreciate feedback on the best way to proceed. Clearly the physics wikiproject is also suitably relevant; also a task force would be a possible alternative to a WikiProject. Thoughts? Would there be interest in this community in working on a dedicated biophysics project? Would it be sensible to have a subproject here and a task force under Physics (which could perhaps concentrate on topics, or aspects of an article, related to theory and to experimental techniques)? Dcrjsr (talk) 14:39, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

After various consultations, WikiProject Biophysics has now been started, under Biology -- it has a skeleton main page, and we will be recruiting new participants at next week's Biophysical Society meeting. Any interested Wikipedians would be extremely welcome!! Dcrjsr (talk) 18:35, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Unique Identifiers

So, there's a new project which may be of interest to some here. It arises out of Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#UID_interface_to_Wikipedia, a proposal to make wikipedia articles available by their UID - for instance by their UNIPROT number. Umm. And those two pages are all I have to show you, but I live in hope of input from you to take it all further. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Some new articles which might need attention

Hello! As a new page patroller I have just come across the following articles, created by User:Rcrzarg on 10 February. They could use some attention and I am not even sure if they are suitable for inclusion here, so I thought I would give you guys a heads up and see if you had any advice on how to handle them :). They are:

• Small non-coding RNAs in the endosymbiotic diazotroph α-proteobacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti
• Αr7 RNA
• Αr9 RNA
• Αr14 RNA
• Αr15 RNA
• Αr35 RNA
• Αr45 RNA

Thanks! --Cerebellum (talk) 16:32, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Circadian matters

I am about to embark on improvements to articles relating to circadian clocks, with a particular interest in improving content related to plant circadian clocks. So far I have edited the lede for circadian rhythm, and have moved circadian oscillator to circadain clock. Anyone with any sort of background or interest in chronobiology or circadian clocks in any way, feel free to give me a hand =) the state of affairs at the moment is a bit dire! Gorton k (talk) 21:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Gene expression graphs

PCDHB7

PCDHB12

There's a bit of confusion on Commons about the graphs to the right. They say that they show two different genes, and are used in two different articles. However the files themselves are identical. Would 2 different, but related, genes show up identically on this sort of graph? If so - do we need different graphs for each of the genes in question?--Nilfanion (talk) 09:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Bit of help with diseases and Folding@home

Hey everyone, I've been heavily editing Folding@home in an effort to get it up to Good Article status. I'm feeling fairly done with the latter half of the article, but I'm having a bit of difficulty in describing the various diseases studied. This is basically the stuff under the "Biomedical research" section. Thing is, I'm learning the molecular processes essentially from scratch, which makes things time consuming since I have to read scientific publications several times before I can understand it enough to cite it. So I'm asking, can someone check my work in that section and let me know if I've incorrectly described the formation of a disease, or if I could say things better? It'll be much easier to tie in F@h's research if I know how the disease develops in the first place, but I'm not a biochem major and I know there are experts here. Any assistance would be appreciated. I'll be watching this page of course. Best, Jesse V. (talk) 06:56, 7 March 2012 (UTC)