User:Madeleine Price Ball

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Madeleine Price Ball

Personal web page: http://mad.printf.net

Blog: http://www.madprime.org

My background: I'm a graduate student in George Church's lab, which specializes in genomics and biotechnology.

Work area: /Draft

Contents 1 Opinions 2 Articles I've worked on 2.1 List of articles I have added pictures of cats to 3 Article access statistics 4 Images I've made

[edit] Opinions

• ABC news scrutinizes the newsworthiness of individual studies - an encyclopedia should be at least this careful. Madeleine 21:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles I've worked on

Some articles I've done major rewriting on:

• Genetics - (5/27/07) at the moment the page is almost entirely content I added

(before - what the page was like before I started)

• 3/13/08 - Good Article
• 3/25/08 - Featured Article

• Sex - (3/31/08) complete rewrite [1]
• DNA replication - (3/5/08) complete rewrite [2]
• Genetic recombination
• Polymerase chain reaction
• Quantification of nucleic acids
• DNA melting - merged two articles, later added info on experimental applications of DNA melting
• Epigenetics

Articles I made:

• PCR optimization - I made this because I wanted to move optimization trivia away from the main PCR article
• Stop codon - Made this page to cover material about amber & ochre mutations and suppressors
• Acacia drepanolobium - The whistling thorn acacia, created the article after reading a cover-story article about it and symbiotic ants in Science.
• Double-flowered - the double flower phenotype, earliest documented floral mutation and popular in many cultivated flowers

Stubs I made:

• Domatia

[edit] List of articles I have added pictures of cats to

• Genetics
• X chromosome inactivation
• Cat

[edit] Article access statistics

Using [3], average number of times accessed per day in 2008/02:

article	access/day
Genetics	2,555
Polymerase chain reaction	2,545
DNA replication	1,997
DNA sequencing	912
Epigenetics	908
Genetic recombination	466
Stop codon	357
Human genetics	262
Arabidopsis thaliana	226
DNA melting	105
History of genetics	97
Acacia drepanolobium	6
Domatia	4

[edit] Images I've made

Some photos and SVG images I made with Inkscape... feel free to suggest other SVG images I could make!

The chemical structure of DNA	Griffith's experiment illustration	illustration of four PCR cycles	A Punnett square, cross between pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.
An image of the genetic code, DNA->RNA->protein	K12 E coli colonies on a plate of agar.	Diagram illustrating the Luria-Delbrück experiment, suggested by ragesoss.	Strip of eight PCR tubes with 100μl reactions.
Eukaryotic phylogenetic tree.	Another tree I tried making, currently used in Genetics article	Sticky-ended DNA ligation	Blunt-ended DNA ligation
Vegan food pyramid, based on ADA recommendations	DNA replication fork with 5'->3' synthesis shown	DNA polymerase extending & proofreading diagram	Rolling circle replication
ABC model of flower development