Wikipedia talk:USEP/Courses/JHU MolBio Ogg FA13/Group 84D/sandbox

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Proposed DRAFT for..

Article selection rationale

Our group decided to select the “Inverted repeat” article. The basic rationale for this choice is that the article is desperately in need of help! The article is currently a stub with only a few sentences and one reference. There is one issue on the article’s talk page concerning inverted repeats and palindromes that definitely needs to be resolved.

A good connection with personal interests is another reason for this choice. One of the group members (Jim Perry) is studying bioinformatics and “sequences” are a topic of personal interest for him. Additionally, this article also provides the opportunity to use lots of illustrations because inverted repeats will often be best explained that way. We believe that the gathering of illustrations will be enjoyable and plan to have a very “colorful” article when we are complete.

Another reason for this choice is that the topic is quite broad and we can focus on a number of areas. Inverted repeats play a role in both DNA and RNA and this may result in two major divisions for the article. References seem to be plentiful. Our hardest task may be determining how best to organize all that is available.

There are existing database of Inverted Repeats and some are listed in the current article as external links. We will likely investigate these and document there general areas of coverage in the article. They may also provide other paths for us to follow as we investigate what should be include in the final article.

One additional item is “terminology”. MeSH indicates that “Inverted Repeat Sequence” is the preferred term for a major heading, so we may consider changing the article title to match up with this preferred term.