User:Opabinia regalis

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Meatspace is catching up to me, so I may not be as active as usual.

This is a Wikipedia user page. If you were looking for the Cambrian fossil, you want this article: Opabinia regalis. This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Opabinia_regalis.

My concessions to userboxes My userpage looks less boring with a protein on it. So here's a DNA clamp. This is now a featured picture! This user is a member of the Molecular & Cellular Biology WikiProject This user participates in the Science Collaboration of the Month. This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user would rather write articles than play wiki-politics.

Proud product of the Cambrian explosion.

Contents 1 Subpages 2 Articles I've worked on 2.1 Protein structure and folding 2.2 Proteins and complexes 2.3 Nucleic acids 2.4 Computational biology 2.5 Cell biology 2.6 Chemistry/biochemistry 2.7 Other biology 3 General Wikipedia-related opinions 4 Empirical data

[edit] Subpages

/Article statistics (to be expanded) • /Awards • /FA data (obsolete) • /Favorites • /MediaWiki wishlist • /Redlinks (create!) • /RfA criteria • /Sandbox • /To do

See also my new draft essay on puddingstone writing.

Not my subpage, but it's somebody's: This is a convenient place for a plug of my new favorite tool, User:Cacycle/wikEd. It's a spiffy little text editor tool that has a) text-finding in the edit window, and b) syntax highlighting that fades all the reference text. It's a little slow-loading for just posting this message, but it can be conveniently turned on and off, and thus improves the efficiency of editing even the most obnoxiously overcited, text-dense, overlong articles.

[edit] Articles I've worked on

This is as much a watchlist as anything else, so the probability that an article gets on here is directly proportional to how much I edited it and also to how likely it is to be vandalized/subject to edit creep, multiplied by a random value that serves as the laziness correction factor.

[edit] Protein structure and folding

accessible surface area • alpha helix • alpha sheet • alpha solenoid • beta barrel • beta hairpin • beta helix • beta-propeller domain • beta sheet • conformational entropy • contact order • downhill folding • EF hand • folding funnel • globin fold • helix bundle • helix-coil transition model • homeodomain fold • hydrophobic collapse • leucine-rich repeat • Lifson-Roig model • native contact • peptide plane flipping • phi value analysis • polyproline helix • primary structure • quaternary structure • Rossmann fold • secondary structure • Structural Classification of Proteins • tertiary structure • thioredoxin fold • TIM barrel • trefoil knot fold • Zimm-Bragg model

[edit] Proteins and complexes

aggrecan • alpha secretase • amyloid precursor protein • argonaute • aspartokinase • barnase • barstar • capping enzyme • chalcone synthase • chromodomain • cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor • cleavage stimulatory factor • cleavage factor • cyclase • delta-cadinene synthase • dicer • DNA clamp • drosha • enhanceosome • F-box protein • FKBP • flippase • gankyrin • guanylyl transferase • heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle • hslVU • PABPII • parvulin • peptidyl-glutamyl peptide-hydrolyzing • pilin • piwi • piwi-interacting RNA • polyadenine polymerase • prolyl isomerase • protein K (gene expression) • protein K (porin) • Rop protein • S1 nuclease • tubby protein • ubiquitin-activating enzyme • ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme • villin

[edit] Nucleic acids

antisense RNA • base pair • polypyrimidine tract • pseudoknot • RNA-induced transcriptional silencing • RNA interference • Sirna Therapeutics • stem-loop • systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment • transcriptome • transfer RNA

[edit] Computational biology

Accelrys • CAFASP • Chou-Fasman method • chemical file format • computational phylogenetics • covarion • dead-end elimination • EVA (benchmark) • Ewald summation • force field (chemistry) • flying ice cube • global distance test • GOR method • homology modeling • implicit solvation • LiveBench • loop modeling • MODELLER • molecular dynamics • molecular mechanics • multiple sequence alignment • phylogenetic tree • phylogenetics software • Poisson-Boltzmann equation • protein structure prediction • protein-protein interaction prediction • self-consistent mean field (biology) • sequence alignment • secondary structure prediction • sequence alignment software • sequence profiling tool • statistical potential • STRIDE (protein) • structural alignment • tree rearrangement

[edit] Cell biology

cell cycle • cell nucleus • crude lysate • DNA repair • malate-aspartate shuttle • nuclease protection assay • processivity • proteasome • reporter gene

[edit] Chemistry/biochemistry

2-furanone • adenosine triphosphate • alkalide • beta-peptide • butenolide • CHAPS detergent • excimer • hydrogen • linamarin • list of standard amino acids • micelle • orthohydrogen • proline • protein

[edit] Other biology

artificial selection • David Baker (biochemist) • biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease • Drosophila X virus • Geoffrey Chang • coalescent theory • crossbreed • Valerie Daggett • gene • gene fixation • genetics glossary • kinome • mating-type region • P22 phage

[edit] General Wikipedia-related opinions

• Verifiability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for inclusion.
• I don't understand why people like their userpages full of userboxes that say trivial things like "This user eats pizza." Does anyone care?
• WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA are perfectly fine policies. Bludgeoning people over the head with them is just being passive-aggressive. For every one uncivil comment, there are ten more complaining about it.
• On Wikipedia as it is in life: if your own business is insufficiently interesting, you feel compelled to mind everyone else's. The solution to this, of course, is to make your own business worth minding. Ideally, this involves writing an article.
• We cannot have self-appointed civility police. If you feel compelled to appoint yourself as such, see above.
• Trying to get a decision made around here is like trying to put socks on an octopus.
• People should take internal drama a lot less seriously.

[edit] Empirical data

A lot of policies are made based on hand-waving arguments about what people might do, probably do, would do, could do, etc. (This is a general feature of governments.) I've made a few small, admittedly lame attempts at collecting empirical data about what people actually do.

• Subject coverage: I had some spare time in which I could read but not edit, and felt like doing something more useful than twiddling my thumbs, so I did a random article survey and categorized the results by subject matter. See results here. Inspired by Rmhermen doing the same thing a long time ago. (This will be expanded at some point in the future.)

• FA vandalism: On a similar note, a very limited survey of editing patterns on featured articles during their 24 hours of fame is here, in search of even sketchy evidence for or against the proposition that anonymous/new editors make substantial contributions to the day's FA that outweigh the influx of vandalism. (Discussion on this general subject here; this survey is obsoleted by this thorough analysis.)