Wikipedia:WikiProject RNA

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[edit] About Us

This Wikiproject is a daughter project of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject and aims to better organize information in articles related to RNA on Wikipedia.

tRNA 3-dimensional structure
tRNA 3-dimensional structure

The Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject aims to organise some of the vast amount of information that has been and continues to be collected about genomes, proteomes and cell function which is currently stored in obscure databases and journal articles. This daughter project is focusing on doing just that, for the information on RNA including RNA genes and RNA regulatory elements.

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at How you can help section below. Also of interest is the Molecular and Cellular Biology Portal associated with the parent of this project. You don't need to know anything about biology to help!

[edit] Basic goals

  • Create and perfect articles on RNA biology, with particular focus on making individual articles on individual RNAs and RNA families accessible. The perfect article is complete, but accessible to a secondary school student.

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[edit] How you can help

[edit] Improve articles

  • The List of RNA families page contains a large list of the pages that are of interest to this project. These articles are very stubby in nature and need lots of improvement!
  • Help in making re-direct pages for the abbreviated names, which are listed here here. For convenience, a table of the corresponding full article names is found here. Are there other abbreviations that should be considered?
  • Adopt a stub! There are many, many stubby RNA articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Many of these were imported from the Rfam database annotation and require some basic editing to bring them into line with wikipedia policies.

[edit] Categorize the many RNA-related articles

There are several RNA categories so far:


[edit] Discuss

[edit] Improve the project itself

  • Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in RNA biology to contribute to Wikipedia.

[edit] Wikiproject RNA
Discussion Pages

Announcements
Proposals
Help Requests
Tasks that need attention

RNA of The Month
Articles of Interest
Requested Articles
Requested Pictures
Resources

External Links
RNA software
Templates
Style Guidelines
Image Gallery
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Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
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Source texts from Wikisource
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[edit] Participants

Here is a list of RNA Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

  Name  Talk page   Special interests
Alex Bateman Talk All things RNA
Antorjal Talk Expertise in mRNA translation and tRNA molecules
Chris Brown Talk RNA regulatory elements
David D. Talk Interested in epigentics and silencing
Jennifer_Rfm Talk RNA families
Narayanese Talk Silencing and introductory topics
Paul Gardner Talk Bioinformatic approaches to RNA analysis.
Samgj Talk Most things RNA
Tyciol Talk Lifeforms with RNA as genetic material prior to DNA, prelude to proteomics
Willow Talk Interested in being helpful and learning more about RNA
William Scott Talk RNA structure and catalysis