User talk:Jon33dn

One more link

I noticed these discussions ongoing yesterday but didn't get around to replying. One more summary link to add to the pile: Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, which was originally published in PLoS Computational Biology to orient scientists to the Wikipedia environment. Rules 7-9 seem pertinent. Some of your suggested additions, while they are certainly interesting results, were being redundantly added in multiple articles in a way that creates an undue weight problem.

The point of the emphasis on review articles is to wait till particular new studies have been placed in the context of the broader field, which your proposed additions to various beta-sheet-related articles currently don't provide. In particular, any discussion of the dynamic features of beta sheets should really include studies by NMR in folded proteins, mechanical unfolding studies by AFM, and probably also spectroscopic and simulation work on the folding process of beta hairpins and small beta-sheet-containing proteins like GB1. Posting this here instead of on the articles' talk pages since there are multiple of them where you've proposed similar additions. Opabinia regalis (talk) 20:54, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestion. NMR studies are generally relatively poor sources of dynamical information in the specific context of dynamics and local rigidity, extrapolating from structural uncertainty. While modern pulsed NMR methods do provide some information, it is generally on timescales far greater than the modes sensitive to rigidity. AFM and simulation work would be excellent topics to include, I hope you are referring to the the work of Beuhler and coworkers, which I find to be excellent. The work added in my contribution is a part of the spectroscopic context, building from the mentioned work of Chou.

Just a point regarding the context of my contribution, I quite liked seeing Chou's work mentioned, and added the content to extend that work from the 80's into the modern context. Then followed the links included to add that context in the other appropriate places, in my opinion.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jon33dn (talk • contribs) 00:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC) [reply]

glad to see you back! I was afraid we scared you away. I do hope you engage with the policies and guidelines. Good luck, and good learning. happy to help if you have questions about anything. Jytdog (talk) 02:29, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]