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Welcome to WikiProject Genetics! This project aims to organize improvement and maintenance of genetics articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions for the project, please visit the project discussion page.

Contents 1 Scope and goals 2 Announcements and open tasks 2.1 To do list 3 Project organization 3.1 Participants 3.2 Departments 3.2.1 Assessment 3.2.2 FA-class review 3.2.3 Collaboration 3.2.4 Outreach and newsletter 3.2.5 Peer review 3.2.6 Translation 3.3 Task forces 3.4 Work groups/topic coordination 4 Project tools/resources 4.1 Guidelines - Style guide and essays 4.2 Templates 4.2.1 Banners templates 4.2.2 Stub templates 4.2.3 Collaboration templates 4.2.4 Infobox templates 4.2.5 Navigation templates 4.2.6 User templates 4.3 Categories 4.4 Awards 4.5 Related WikiProjects 4.5.1 Parent WikiProjects 4.5.2 Descendant WikiProjects 4.5.3 Related WikiProjects 4.6 External tools 5 Showcase 5.1 Featured articles 5.2 Featured lists 5.3 Other featured content 5.4 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 5.5 A-Class articles 5.6 Portal 6 Articles 6.1 Good articles (GA) 6.2 New articles 6.3 Did you know (DYK?) 6.4 Images 6.5 Up for deletion 7 Requests 8 Project history

[edit] Scope and goals

• Classical genetics
• Genetic traits
• Genomics
• Molecular genetics
• Gene regulation
• Related technologies (eg. genetic engineering)

[edit] Announcements and open tasks

Announcements may be made through WikiProject Genetics newsletter.

[edit] To do list

1. Ensure that all of these categories are within Category:Genetics
2. Confirm that the hierarchy of Category:Genetics and List of basic genetics topics are what a typical reader would expect. An example Genetics hierarchy is here.

[edit] Project organization

[edit] Participants

This is a list of Genetics WikiProject members, together with some of their interests. To join the project, just add yourself to this list. Members are encouraged to add this page to their watchlist to keep up to date with project developments.

• Madeleine ✉ ✍ - genomics, technologies, classical genetics, epigenetics
• LeeVJ (talk) - Huntington's disease and all aspects relating to it
• Richard001 (talk) - Interested in working on basic genetics articles in the near future
• Liveste (talk) - Genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation (esp. genomic imprinting). Also protein biology.
• NCurse _work - Personalized genetics, biotechnology, genomic medicine.
• Gorton k (talk) - About to become a genetics student, will update wikipedia as I go. A big fan of model organisms. Go model organisms.
• Rcej (talk) - Interested in articles about inherited metabolic disorders, and autosomal recessive inheritance.
• Lunakeet Interested in pretty much everything genetics related.
• Sting au Buzz Me... More into Mendelian inheritance but all genetic articles interest me.
• User:Origamikid (talk) - Uncommon genetic defects/diseases of particular interest.
• Schu1321 - Molecular genetics, medical genetics
• Wisdom89 - Molecular genetics, signal transduction, molecular biology techniques.
• El Pollo Diablo - medical genetics, gene transfer, viral vectors, neurodegenerative disorders, Huntingtons disease in particular.
• Radman622 - General interest in genetics.
• PLindenbaum - Bioinformatics, genotyping, history of Sciences.
• Lex (talk) - Genetics and biochemistry.
• Sayed Mohd Faiz Haider Rizvi (talk) 12:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC) - Genetics and Bio-Informatics
• Gsimmer - Equine Coat Color Genetics specifically. All things genetics.
• Busboy -Genetic inheritance of unique characteristics, genetic mutations, abiogenesis, and evolutionary biology
• Nerguy
• Ŵïllî§ï$2 (^Talk!/_Cont.)
• Tyciol I've studied some basic genetics and read Watson's DNA.
• Cdogsimmons (talk) 01:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC) General interest in genetics, epigenetics,
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[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department coordinates article assessments for the project based on quality and project importance. The department collects statistics in cooperation with the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. Assessment requests for articles can be made here. To have an article reviewed, usually prior to gaining a higher-level assessment rating, please see the Peer review section below.

[edit] FA-class review

[edit] Collaboration

Collaboration is conveyed through WikiProject Genetics/Collaboration of the Month

[edit] Outreach and newsletter

Newsletters are released as information warrants by WikiProject Genetics' Outreach Department (to be established) through cooperation with WikiProject Council/Newsletters. WikiProject Genetics current newsletter is May 2008.

[edit] Peer review

Genetics article peer review exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality articles that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a featured article candidate. To request a peer review, please follow these instructions.

[edit] Translation

Requests for translation of genetics articles from foreign-language Wikipedias into English may be posted at Wikipedia:Translation. For translation of genetics articles in the opposite direction (from English to another language), see the translation how-to page.

[edit] Task forces

WikiProject Genetics does not have any task forces at present.

[edit] Work groups/topic coordination

WikiProject Genetics does not have any work groups at present.

[edit] Project tools/resources

[edit] Guidelines - Style guide and essays

[edit] Templates

[edit] Banners templates

WikiProject Genetics' project banner is {{WikiProject Genetics}}. Please place at the top of an appropriate talk page. Placing the template on the talk page will help to direct editors to this WikiProject Genetics main page. This is how the template will look when it has been added:

	This page is part of WikiProject Genetics, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to genetics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this page, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This page has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This page has not yet received an importance rating.

[edit] Stub templates

Remember to mark up stub articles with the appropriate stub template at the bottom of the article. This automatically adds it to the appropriate page and inserts the banners to the bottom of the page. Currently there are three stub templates:

Stub name	Category	Usage	Stub count	Banner
{{Genetic-disorder-stub}}	Category:Genetic disorder stubs	Articles about genes or chromosomes abnormality conditions.	163	This genetic disorder article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Geneticist-stub}}	Category:Geneticist and evolutionary biologist stubs	For heredity and variation in living organism scientists.	66	This article about a geneticist or evolutionary biologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
{{Genetics-stub}}	Category:Genetics stubs	For all articles on heredity and variation in living organisms.	455	This genetics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] Collaboration templates

[edit] Infobox templates

• {{Infobox haplogroup}}

[edit] Navigation templates

• {{Haplogroups}}
• {{MtDNA}}
• {{Y-DNA}}
• {{Y-DNA G}}
• {{Y-DNA I}}
• {{Y-DNA Phylogenetic Tree}}
• {{Y-DNA R}}

[edit] User templates

{{User WikiProject Genetics}}

Userbox enthusiasts may want to add {{User WikiProject Genetics}} to their userpage to show that they are members of this WikiProject. For more userboxes, see additional genetics related userboxes.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Awards

{{subst:The EMC² Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

The E=mc² Barnstar Category: Mathematics and Science ("Hard" sciences; astronomy, chemistry, biology, geology, mathematics, medicine, minerology, physics) The E=mc² Barnstar may be awarded to an editor who makes particularly fine contributions regarding mathematics or science-related topics Introduced on April 22, 2005 by brian0918 and ClockworkSoul.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

• WikiProject Biology

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Human Genetic History
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Genetics

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Evolutionary biology
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology
• WikiProject Medicine

[edit] External tools

[edit] Showcase

[edit] Featured articles

• Genetics -- a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms.

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Other featured content

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

[edit] A-Class articles

[edit] Portal

[edit] Articles

[edit] Good articles (GA)

• Genetic code -- the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences) by living cells.

[edit] New articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

[edit] Images

See generally Images of genetic subjects.

[edit] Up for deletion

[edit] Requests

Please make requests on the talk page.

• Skysmith's list of missing Genetics articles

[edit] Project history

The original April 8, 2008 proposal for the project by Madeleine can be found here WikiProject Council/Genetics Proposals.