User talk:EquationDoc

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Contents 1 Welcome to the Wikipedia 1.1 Oh, and another thing 2 Re: BAX 3 Re: Article Title Style Question - Acronyms 4 Requested proteins 5 For you... 6 This month's winner is RNA interference! 7 This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein! 8 WikiProject Cell Signaling

[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Welcome, EquationDoc!

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Best of luck, and have fun! – ClockworkSoul 23:56, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oh, and another thing

Welcome to the MCB Project. :) – ClockworkSoul 23:56, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: BAX

Hi, EquationDoc. All you have to do is click the "move" tab at the top of the article's page, and type the new name into the "to new title" field. If there is already a page at the new location, then an administrator will have to do the move. I've already moved Bcl-2–associated death protein to Bcl-2-associated X protein. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 15:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see the problem. Your account must be at least four days old before you can move a page. Within a couple of days, your move tab will appear. – ClockworkSoul 17:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Article Title Style Question - Acronyms

As far as I know, there is no currently agreed upon standard when it comes to article names and abbreviations, but the general tendency is to use the subject's full name as the location of the main article, and then create a redirect from the acronym. Regarding your other questions, I don't believe that there is any official standard for any of those questions, but there's been some discussion at the MCB porposals page. I'll repost your question to our help page: with some luck it can kick start the discussion. – ClockworkSoul 05:13, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Even better: I just remembered that we have a style guidelines page! Sorry, it's been a long day. If you still find it lacking, please let me know, or post it to MCB, and we'll figure it out. – ClockworkSoul 05:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see. The style is that human gene and protein names are written in capitals (for example, ALDOA, INS, etc). For orthologs of human genes in other species, only the initial letter is capitalized. It looks like the article should be moved, and a redirect left in its place. – ClockworkSoul 05:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Tell me about it. I've investigate gC1qR/p33. Guess which name we use. – ClockworkSoul 06:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested proteins

Excellent idea: thanks for adding it! I was thinking, however, that it might be a good idea to expand the scope of the page to include non-protein images, such as pathway diagrams and the like. What do you think? – ClockworkSoul 16:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] For you...

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		For displaying enthusiasm, skill, and boldness beyond your experience, I hereby award you the Exceptional Newcomer Award.. Display it with pride! – ClockworkSoul 16:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This month's winner is RNA interference!

RNA interference

The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is RNA interference. Please help to improve this article to featured article status.

Last month's collaboration was proteasome.

– ClockworkSoul 14:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein!

Peripheral membrane protein

The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject's current Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein. Please help to improve this article to featured article status.

Last month's collaboration was RNA interference.

– ClockworkSoul 18:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Cell Signaling

I noticed you are a participant in WikiProject Cell Signaling. This project has been reactivated if you are still interested. Biochemza 20:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)