Talk:Start codon

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[edit] Merge

I'm seeing far too many small articles like this - surely it would be better to keep this in Genetic code#Start/stop codons. Half the article is just explaining background, which is duplicating material already elsewhere, and the rest is hardly enough for a stand-alone article. It certainly isn't so big as to clog up the genetic code article, and there are no other relevant parent topics that would support the existence of a separate article. Richard001 04:38, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree, its not a standalone concept or topic unlike the other things in the translation template box 129.31.72.52 18:39, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Agreed as well. How do you get that going? —Preceding unsigned comment added by LostLucidity (talk • contribs) 00:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I disagree completely with merging the article. This is a significant, self-contained area in Molecular Genetics, as I can attest from a professional point of view, and is far too extensive to just appear as a few lines in the article on the Genetic Code. If anything, the article should be significantly improved and expanded. I have just fixed the statistics on the usage of AUG, GUG and UUG in E. coli (using the original genome sequence paper as reference) and added a general reference, as well as fixing some minor problems. It still needs more work. AussieBoy (talk) 01:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)