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About us

Scope

This project aims to improve and organise articles related to molecular and cell biology on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology/Participants, drop by our discussion page or just look over the How you can help section below.

Goals

Collect and organize the wealth of information in databases and academic journals on genomes, proteomes and biological functions to ensure that it is accessible to both researchers and laypeople
Improve articles to featured article status, especially vital articles, with a particular focus on subjects that are discussed at the primary and secondary school level
Create a standard system for presenting the information about the proteins and cells that are discussed in Wikipedia articles

How the project can help you

Our discussion page is a great hub for asking advice, bringing up ideas, suggesting articles for creation, and requesting reviews

We keep a collection of advice & resources pages on the challenges of writing science and molecular biology Wikipedia articles

Automatically updated lists of articles and significant updates can help you keep on top of important events and find stubs to expand

How you can help the project

Improve our articles

Add Infoboxes - Help to standardise the data presented on protein articles

Add images - Diagrams and figures are particularly important to science articles so you can look at our diagram guide for standardising protein and cell figures, or ask for help in creating and updating pictures on the Talk page

Add references - Reliable citations are needed articles to be a verifiable source of information

Collaboration - Contribute to a team effort by participating in the collaborations that come up on our talk page to improve relevant articles to featured article status
Label articles of interest - Add pages to the project by putting the {{Wikiproject MCB}} template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to molecular and cell biology.
Adopt a stub - There are many, many stubby MCB articles that have potential, see Category:Molecular and cellular biology stubs or Category:Stub-Class MCB articles.
Categorisation - Add protein articles to the list of types of proteins and place them in the proteins category or one of its subcategories.
Recruitment - Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in molecular and cell to contribute to Wikipedia.
Clean up articles - There is a list of articles requiring clean up at clean-up listing for Molecular_and_Cell_Biology

Article alerts

Did you know

• 14 May 2024 – Phenotypic disparity (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Interaccoonale (t · c); see discussion

Proposed deletions

• 17 May 2024 – Traceability of genetically modified organisms (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by KoA (t · c): Unsourced student-like essay, also gets into into more hypothetical things than in practice or WP:DUE. Not a clear case for WP:N, but if content is going to be developed, it's probably best done at a parent article and then decided if it needs a ...

Good article nominees

• 14 May 2024 – Statin (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by RowanJ LP (t · c) was not promoted by Chiswick Chap (t · c), see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 09 Feb 2024 – Exosome complex (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Pereoptic (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 20 Apr 2024 – Chromosome theory of cancer (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Chromosome instability by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Mar 2024 – Pparg coactivator 1 alpha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to PPARGC1A by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Dec 2023 – Spiral bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2023 – Coccus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2023 – Bacillus (shape) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Nov 2023 – Maltase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Α-Glucosidase by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Sep 2023 – Phosphorylcholine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Phosphocholine by Hammer q (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 06 May 2024 – Tether (cell biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Bluescreening (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Jan 2024 – Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Sep 2023 – Institutional racism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Shoreranger (t · c); see discussion
• 05 May 2023 – T cell (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2023 – Formylation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2022 – Platelet (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Darkskysunflowers (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Aug 2022 – Epidermal growth factor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kupirijo (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Jun 2022 – Hypervariable region (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by KingisNitro (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Dec 2020 – Pilin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Nov 2020 – Holocarboxylase synthetase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for creation

• 04 Mar 2024 – Draft:Mikhail E. Nasrallah (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ashoak2023 (t · c)
• 18 Jul 2023 – Draft:Catalog of MCA Control Patterns (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rhodydog (t · c)
• 12 Jul 2023 – Draft:American Gene Technologies (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Khoff352 (t · c)
• 18 May 2024 – Draft:Carolyn Napoli (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Eastmarin (t · c) was declined by Ratnahastin (t · c) on 20 May 2024
• 13 May 2024 – Draft:Lipoprotein rotamase A (SlrA) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by JLG science (t · c) was accepted to Lipoprotein rotamase A (SlrA) (talk · edit · hist) by Ratnahastin (t · c) on 20 May 2024
• 10 May 2024 – Draft:RG/RGG Motif (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by ZDISK (t · c) was moved to RG/RGG Motif (talk · edit · hist) by Graeme Bartlett (t · c) (author) on 13 May 2024

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