Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology

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[edit] About us

This project aims to better organize information in articles related to molecular and cell biology on Wikipedia. A major problem facing biology is organizing the vast amount of information that has been and continues to be collected about genomes, proteomes and cell function. A primary goal of this project is to collect and organize the totality of this information and make it accessible to researchers and laypeople alike by providing an entry point to the wealth of biological data that is currently hidden in obscure databases and journal articles.

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or just look over the How you can help section below. Also of interest is the Molecular and Cellular Biology Portal associated with this project.

[edit] Concrete goals

  • Create and perfect articles on the fundamental topics in molecular and cellular biology, with a particular focus on subjects that are discussed at the primary and secondary school level. The perfect article is complete, but accessible to a secondary school student.
  • Create a standard system for presenting the information about the proteins and cells that are discussed in Wikipedia articles.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

The list of active projects has sections for both Biology and Health sciences, but the most relevant seems to be the Medicine Project listed at the Biology Portal and the Medicine Portal. Listed within the Medicine Project, there is a Preclinical Medicine Project that is concerned with the kinds of basic science courses that medical students take, however, there is only minimal emphasis on the type of molecular and cell biology issues that are centered on fundamental concerns such as naming and categorizing genes, proteins and cell types.

Wikipedia articles about cellular and molecular biology topics can also be improved by making use of the Wikiversity Biomedical Research Project.

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[edit] How you can help

Ribbon diagram of Tup1, a transcriptional co-repressor, which adopts a 7-bladed beta-propeller fold. Based on PDB ID 1ERJ.
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Ribbon diagram of Tup1, a transcriptional co-repressor, which adopts a 7-bladed beta-propeller fold. Based on PDB ID 1ERJ.

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[edit] Improve articles

  • The organization page contains a list of all of the articles that have been identified as being of interest to the project, organized according to category and assigned an importance and quality grade.
  • Adopt a stub! There are many, many stubby MCB articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Some good categories are cell biology stubs, biochemistry stubs, and molecular and cellular biology stubs.
  • Contribute to a team effort by participating in the Collaboration of the Month, a monthly collaboration to improve molecular and cellular biology articles to featured article status.
  • The article request is where members can go to ask for help in creating specific new articles or in completing particular tasks.
  • Upgrade the infoboxes in protein articles to conform to our protein infobox style.
  • The protein request is where members can go to ask for help in creating protein images that do not yet exist, replacing protein images with restrictive copyrights, or creating pathway diagrams. All images covered by a non-commercial uses disclaimer should be replaced by molecular model images generated by Wikipedia users themselves. This can be done using the raw structural data from the Protein Data Bank, the contents of which are in the public domain. Please also see our discussion about how to standardize the depiction of proteins.

[edit] Categorize the many MCB-related articles

[edit] Direct our focus

[edit] Improve the project itself

  • Help to develop the protein infobox templates. Protein information boxes can be included in each wikipedia article about a particular protein. Eventually, there should also be an information box about cell types.
  • Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in molecular and cellular to contribute to Wikipedia.
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WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology

Featured Molecular and Cellular Biology Illustration.The assembled human DNA clamp, a trimer of the protein PCNA, which is a processivity factor that increases the speed and efficiency of DNA replication. In the assembled replication complex, the clamp encircles the DNA, which passes through the central pore.
Featured Molecular and Cellular Biology Illustration.
The assembled human DNA clamp, a trimer of the protein PCNA, which is a processivity factor that increases the speed and efficiency of DNA replication. In the assembled replication complex, the clamp encircles the DNA, which passes through the central pore.
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[edit] Participants

Here is a list of Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

  Name  Talk page   Special interests
AaronM Talk I work on (in Wikipedia and the outside world) the cytoskeleton, cilia/flagella, and motor proteins
ABiochemist Talk Porting of material into WikiBooks, General Biochemistry and X-ray Crystallography
Adenosine Talk We need more diagrams, they can convey more information in one image than two volumes of text
Alberrosidus Talk Membrane structure/function, protein synthesis/signaling
Alteripse Talk
Antorjal Talk Prokaryotic transcription and translation, gene regulation, Enzymology
Arcadian Talk
BerserkerBen Talk "Will draw any enzymatic reaction for food": If you feel an article can be improve with a picture of the protein or enzyme reaction/mechanism simply ask.
Biohacker Talk
Biophys Talk Membrane-associated proteins, Protein folding and stability, Molecular mechanics and modeling
Blackcat100 Talk Bioinformatics, Microarray data analysis, Biological networks, Gene regulation, Machine learning
Blastwizard Talk Bioinformatics, Sequence analysis, Protein structure prediction, Metabolism, Cellular processes
BorisTM Talk Here: Primary - Inter and intra cell signaling, Metabolism, Regulation; Secondary - everything else. Outside this project - Neuroscience.
ClockworkSoul Talk
Comcc Talk Undergraduate Physiology student with cell biology and immunology background. Looking to contribute.
Daen Talk Bioinformatics esp. sequence analysis, cheminformatics
David D. Talk Epigenetics, biochemistry and development, emphasis on plants
DGG Talk phylogenetics, especially with respect to consistency on the Wikipedia pages
Diberri Talk Biochemistry and cell signaling, also template tools
DO11.10 Talk Graduate student immunology topics, immune system, etc...
Dr Aaron Talk Bone biology, muscle biology, basic cell biology, cell signalling
Dr.saptarshi Talk integrative biology of all the systems, cell biology of signaling, tissue biology, transdifferentiation, stem cell niche etc etc
EdJohnston Talk Phylogenetics, bioinformatics
EquationDoc Talk Computational biology, Bioinformatics, Cancer, Cell signaling - I would also like to see a Wikipedia page for every human protein.
GACGGT Talk Muscle Biology, Neuromuscular Junction, cell signaling, receptor tyrosine kinases, aging.
GAThrawn22 Talk Developmental Biology - I would also like to see a wikipedia page for every human protein
Goldfinger820 Talk RNA interference, RNA molecular biology, Insect Molecular Biology
Hydkat Talk Bioinformatics, Sequence analysis, Microarray data analysis, Biodatabases.
Inositol Talk
Jbarin Talk Doctoral candidate: Immunology, autoimmune disease, receptor signalling
JBKramer Talk Educated non-professional. Not a crank, I promise.
JE at UWO Talk Medical sciences student: Physiology, biophysics, immunology, and more. (see my userpage).
Johnalrd Talk understanding the Secrets of Life from the nanoscale up
Jfdwolff Talk Clinical biochemistry and clinically relevant enzymes/proteins
JOK Talk
JWSchmidt Talk I admit it; I want a Wikipedia article for every human protein.
Keesiewonder Talk Pursuing an MS in Biotechnology
Kjaergaard Talk Biophysical and structural aspects of proteins.
Kohlasz Talk Chemotaxis; Chemotaxis assays; Proteomics; Drug Discovery
LasseFolkersen Talk
LestatdeLioncourt Talk
Lord Metroid Talk Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, fascinated by the molecular mechanics that makes up life. Loves the theory but loath laborative work in the courses.
MarcoTolo Talk
Nibblesnbits Talk Enzyme Kinetics, Molecular Biology, Enzyme Inhibition, Drug Discovery
Nitramrekcap Talk
OldakQuill Talk
Opabinia regalis Talk Protein structure and folding, computational biology
Peregrine Falcon Talk
Peta Talk Biochem and molecular biology esp related to plants
Peter Znamenskiy Talk Cell culture and adult stem cells, developmental signalling pathways
pez2 Talk Enzymology, particularlly Vitamin K and Serine Proteases. Natural Killer cells
Reo On Talk Plant hormonne, plant cell biology (especially topics related to hormonne transport regulation - trafficking, polarity etc )
Roadnottaken Talk Graudate student - proteomics, mass-spectrometry, lipid- and protein-biochemistry, endocannabinoids & neurotransmission.
RockyRaccoon Talk Single-molecule biophysics, optical trapping, nucleosomes, nucleosome remodelling, physical properties of DNA.
Rozzychan Talk Improve organization of the major biochemical pathways in cell biology by adding templates and links. Improve readability of articles.
Runningamok Talk Graduate student. Adult stem cells, muscle, and general cell bio
Sangak Talk Structural Biology (NMR), Nano-biotechnology, Biophotonics, Motor proteins and cytoskeleton.
SenorKristobbal Talk Honours student in Molecular Biology currently doing honours project on Type II topoisomerases.
SFMatheson Talk Neurobiology, developmental biology, cell biology, cytoskeleton. I use RNAi in neuronal cultures to study cytoskeletal signaling in process outgrowth.
ShaiM Talk
SirHaddock Talk Protein folding - experimental and computational
Splette Talk Cytoskeleton, computational biology, images
Staranise Talk
Ste1n Talk I have been educated in biotech, but currently I'm mostly into bioinformatics, esp. automated Swanson linking and other forms of text mining.
Stewartadcock Talk
Tim Vickers Talk Enzymes, enzyme kinetics, enzyme inhibition and pathogens.
Thorwald Talk Bioinformatics / computational biology, protein-protein interaction prediction, drug discovery
Tycho Talk
Username132 Talk Protein engineering, therapeutic gene modulation, viral vectors and pseudotyping.
WikipedianProlific Talk I make images, diagrams, cross sections etc. for scientific (biological mostly) wikipedia articles. Please feel free to contact me with a request if you need graphics. My gallery can be seen here.
Willow Talk Proteins and other basic biochemistry.
Wlad Talk Structure-function. Biochemistry of neural development.
Xcomradex Talk Enzyme kinetics and inhibition, chemical biology, and chemical aspects of biological reactions
Zephyris Talk
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