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[edit] Help me make a page for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction
[edit] To Do List
- 0) limit to 6->10k words,(30->50 KB) of readable prose.
- 1) What are protein-protein interactions.
- 2) Why it is useful to be able to predict them with a computer.
- 3) The general principles involved.
- 4) You should aim for no more than a dozen, preferably review articles.
- 5) Smaller articles on individual computational methods (vote: 1y:1n ).
- 6) add links to related Wikipedia pages.
- 7) integrate with Wikipedia.
[edit] Helpful comments
Next, there are already articles on Protein interactions and Protein-protein interactions. You'll want to add to each of those pages a link to Protein-protein interaction prediction. On Protein interactions, which is really just of list of links to more specific topics, you want a very brief description in the style of what is already there, like " Protein-protein interaction prediction uses computer algorithms to sort through millions of possible protein-protein interactions to predict the one most likely to occur." On the Protein-protein interactions page you could write a short paragraph explaining that understanding protein-protein interactions is vital to the study of X Y and Z (pharma? development?) and there are a number of physical methods however due to the large number of proteins and the millions of ways they could interact it is more efficient to predict the most likely interactions with computers, and link the PPIP article. That'll be a good start and give you practice editing, also read Wikipedia:Your first article. When you're ready to start working on the main article again you could do it in the main article space, but if you do, copy the text back to your user space as a backup in case the main article is deleted. (You can follow the discussion to get a feel for how its going; it might get kept anyway; if not you can recreate it when its better.) Thatcher131 07:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- You should also look at the articles Systems biology and Bioinformatics and the other articles in their categories to see where yours will ultimately fit. For example Bioinformatics has a subsection protein structure prediction, that is a couple paragraph overview and a link to the main article Protein structure prediction. You might plan to create another subsection for protein-protein interactions that gives a 2-4 paragraph overview and links to your article as a main article.
- Finally, I agree there are some very dense articles here. But personally I don't think that extremely dense specialist articles belong here because that's what specialist journals are for. There's no specific ban that I know of, its just my opinion. Compare Support_vector_machine with Protein structure prediction and ask yourself which will be most understandable and therefore useable to the widest range of people. If you write a really deep technical article the only people who will understand it are people who won't need to look it up in the first place. (I hope that makes sense.) Thatcher131 07:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tips on writing wiki articles
- Make sure to become familiar with wiki formatting. For example, enclosing a term with double square brackets makes a "wikilink" to an article with that title. If there is not article with that title it will make a red link. You should search wikipedia to see if any red links you create might already exist with a different title.
- Look around at the articles on Bioinformatics and the articles in the category bioinformatics. You can copy phrases or sentences from another article to yours if it expresses something you want to say.
- Got to go back to real life. Good luck. Thatcher131 16:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
