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[edit] Nucleophile participation mechanism

The mechanistic scheme should incorporate the solvent participation mechanism. For example in methanol, the carbonyl oxide undergoes attack to give an alpha-methoxyl hydroperoxide. This can be conveniently incorporated by an arrow going right in the current scheme. I lack the technical skills to do this. If you let me have the ChemDraw original, I can do the editting DavidRKelly 17:56, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ozonolysis picture

Thanks a lot for the mechanism image- long needed! Walkerma 7 July 2005 19:20 (UTC)

[edit] Enzyme

Hi. I saw that you recently removed the Featured Article candidate sign from Talk:Enzyme because you didn't feel the article was good enough. While I agree with you, the procedure is to vote here on the subject instead of eliminating the candidacy. I've fixed the page, and any objections you can add on the candidacy page would help people improve the article. Enjoy your time here,

Dave (talk) 18:25, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] C4 Carbon fixation!

Thanks For the heads up on my shitty pyrophosphate, don't know how I missed it. Thanks again! It's all fixed now! Adenosine | Talk 10:06, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Insulin image

If I understand the history correctly, you are responsible for posting the new dual image of insulin. Thank you and please thank its creator (not you if I understand correctly); it's a lovely image and very good work. It's a major contributor to the article's quality. I think it's now among the best on WP, at least the parts I see regularly. Thank you again. ww 22:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

  • I did make this image, if you mean the one with the monomer and hexamer structures. I did not make the picture of the actual crystals, but I did make the one of the hexamer structure with zinc ions. These sorts of images are rather simple to make, with the free software pymol. Insulin's 3d coordinates were taken from the crystal nmr structure deposited in the PDB under 1ai0. Chang, X., Jorgensen, A.M., Bardrum, P., Led, J.J. --Takometer 01:24, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I read the history and checked image filename just to accomplish one thing: congratulate the image poster. THANK YOU! I am learning nutrition, and have no background in chemistry (I took French instead), so I'm infinitely grateful for the little explaining blurb below it. Nastajus 03:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Hi Takometer! Will you please be so kind and move your picture to Commons, so that I can use it in the german version of Insulin. Kind Regards from Austria, Rudi PumpingRudi Now also in the en-Universe. PumpingRudi 20:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Programmed evolution evolution

How did Programmed evolution evolve? -- Kim van der Linde at venus 19:25, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] programmed evolution

This article, which you seem to have written, appears to violate our Wikipedia:No original research policy. Please consult that policy, and also Wikipedia:Cite sources and revise the article accordingly - otherwise, it will be challenged. Slrubenstein | Talk 10:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Error in cyanogen bromide picture

Hi... I just noticed that there's an error in the figure you made for the cyanogen bromide article. It's the peptide bond of the substrate, that has been drawn erronously. I haven't used chem drawing programs for a while, so I'm not so enthusiastic about fixing it myself... :-) Kjaergaard 05:25, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:B4p.jpg

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[edit] Codon usage in Genetic Code pic

I was wondering if you could respond to the question posted at Talk:Genetic code#Codon usage stats in the genetic code image about your picture of the genetic code ([1]). There seems to be a discrepancy / confusion about the codon usage bias numbers.

Is there an SVG version of this image? If it's trivial to do, you should consider uploading an SVG version since that's the preferred format for this sort of graphic.

Finally, although it's small, I think you shouldn't have a credit within the image. From Wikipedia:Image use policy#User-created images: "Always specify on the description page where the image came from (the source), such as scanning a paper copy, or a URL, or a name/alias and method of contact for the photographer. For screenshots this means what the image is a screenshot of (the more detail the better). Do not put credits in images themselves." As I understand it, it's contrary to the policy of wikipedia to claim credit for any contributions within the article itself, including images. Madeleine ✉ ✍ 21:57, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I'm taking it off. I've had pictures I've made stolen off of wikipedia frequently, this one was too important for me to just let go. I wasn't aware of the credit issue. I refuse to take my name off this particular image, it was too much work, simple. Takometer (talk) 03:23, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry the implications of the creative commons licensing weren't clear to you - images used on wikipedia must be released under with a copyright that allows reuse, modification, and commercial usage. I appreciate your intent to contribute and I understand that it's sometimes not worth giving up ownership. The image did look like a lot of work. :) Madeleine

✉ ✍ 22:27, 10 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madeleine Price Ball (talk • contribs)

Uhm, I DO understand what the CC licence means, when I say "stolen" I mean reused WITHOUT CREDIT. I don't care if people copy it, so long as my name appears on it. Imprinting my name in the raster image was a (admittedly non-foolproof) way to ensure that the CC licence was honored. When the crediting information appears on the Image page, it is sufficiently decoupled from the image that a "right click/save as" does not preserve the crediting information. Sorry, I just don't have enough trust in people to not abuse and honor that. Most people, however, will not go to the trouble of removing the name from the raster image.

[edit] Programmed evolution

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[edit] I would appreciate some feedback ...

on the genetic code talk page before the figure being discussed is inserted. Doug youvan (talk) 02:53, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the recent undo: Those really are the properties that K&D deduced from experimental values "inside" proteins. There are exceptions, such a the protonated glutamic acid at E104 in the photosynthetic reaction center. Mutation EL104L did not cause bisymmetric electron transfer, and that residue is particularly well-studied by spectroscopists. Also, I don't know if I can find the reference, but the K-D scale can be reduced from its current fine scale (~ -4.5 to +4.5) to a very coarse scale (-1, 0, 1) and it still predicts transmembrane protein domains just fine. Doug youvan (talk) 16:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)