Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/RNA

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Welcome to the RNA taskforce of WikiProject Molecular Biology.
If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the talkpage of WikiProject Molecular Biology, the centralized point for discussion, thank you.

Scope

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. 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!

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/high school student.

How you can help Improve articles The List of RNA families page and the List of RNAs pages are portals into lists of articles that are of interest to this project. These are generally stubby in nature and need lots of improvement! Help in making re-direct pages for the abbreviated names, which are listed 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. Categorize the many RNA-related articles There are several RNA categories so far: RNA Antisense RNA Cis-regulatory RNA elements Internal ribosome entry site MicroRNA Non-coding RNA Riboswitch Ribozymes RNA interference RNA sequencing RNA splicing RNA viruses RNA-binding proteins Small nuclear RNA Spliceosome RNA vaccines Discuss Join in discussing proposals at WikiProject Molecular Biology. Any ideas are always welcome! Improve the project itself Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in RNA biology to contribute to Wikipedia.

Wikiproject RNA Tasks that need attention Collaboration of the Month Articles of Interest Requested Articles Requested Pictures Resources External Links RNA software Our sister projects Images and media from Commons Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary Textbooks from Wikibooks Quotations from Wikiquote Source texts from Wikisource News stories from Wikinews

Participants A list of RNA taskforce members (along with some of their interests) is maintained under the WikiProject Molecular Biology page. To join, simply add yourself at that page and indicate your interests. Although this taskforce is currently considered inactive, it can always be reactivated if there are interested participants! Wikitext userbox where used {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/RNA/userbox}} This user is a member of Wikiproject RNA. linked pages   Name  Talk page   Special interests Alex Bateman Talk All things RNA Allen Gathman Talk Alternative splicing Antorjal Talk Expertise in mRNA translation and tRNA molecules Olaf Bochmann Talk RNA structural reconstruction David D. Talk Interested in epigentics and silencing Jennifer_Rfm Talk RNA families Joy Talk structural RNAs L5tardust Talk Small non-coding RNAs. LiLei Talk Bacterial sRNAs. Manjula Vinod Talk Interested to learn more about MicroRNAs and various method. Narayanese Talk Silencing and introductory topics Pavel Baranov Talk RNA editing, Recoding Paul Gardner Talk Bioinformatic approaches to RNA analysis. Todd Lowe Talk RNA genomics; tRNA, snoRNA, RNase P search methods. Samgj Talk Most things RNA Sarah Burge Talk Everything RNA in general, ncRNA in particular Spjelgus Talk ncRNA Chris Brown Talk RNA regulatory elements Tyciol Talk Lifeforms with RNA as genetic material prior to DNA, prelude to proteomics Walter Moss Talk viral ncRNAs William Scott Talk RNA structure and catalysis Wil Koetsier Talk Self-splicing introns Willow Talk Interested in being helpful and learning more about RNA References Tools Main tool page: toolserver.org Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.