Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology

WikiProject Molecular Biology

A WikiProject to co-ordinate various aspects of molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biophysics, computational biology and related fields. Broadly, it focuses on biology at the cellular and subcellular levels.

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Articles for deletion

• 10 May 2025 – Quantum coherence in photosynthesis (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Robertsky (t · c) on 18 May 2025; see discussion (8 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 12 May 2025 – Evolver (software) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by WeWake (t · c) was redirected to Genetic algorithm#Commercial products (talk · edit · hist)

Good article nominees

• 21 Apr 2025 – RNA-Seq (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Amkilpatrick (t · c); start discussion
• 15 Apr 2025 – Single-cell transcriptomics (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vivek Rai (t · c); start discussion
• 23 Dec 2024 – CYP4F2 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 11 Apr 2025 – Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Colossal Biosciences' Dire Wolf Project by Blockhaj (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Apr 2025 – Binary Alignment Map (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to BAM (file format) by Vivek Rai (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 14 Feb 2025 – Antagomir (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Anti-miRNA oligonucleotides by D6dmso (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Nov 2024 – Macromolecular assembly (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Macromolecular cages by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 22 Feb 2025 – Cloning (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Dec 2024 – Dihedral angle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Sep 2024 – KIF1A (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2620:1D5:A00:4:C86A:1126:2736:27AF (t · c); see discussion
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 15 May 2025 – Draft:Optical Pooled Screening (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Maliepedia (t · c)
• 10 Apr 2025 – Draft:Eliah G. Overbey (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GenomeNomad (t · c)
• 28 Mar 2025 – Draft:Chromosome 17 open reading frame 107 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Evansella (t · c)
• 19 Feb 2025 – Draft:Minimal versatile genetic perturbation technology (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Andrew.l.metcalfe (t · c)

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WikiProject Molecular Biology Taskforces

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  Molecular and Cell Biology
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  Genetics
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  Computational Biology
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  Biophysics
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  Metabolic Pathways
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  Cell Signaling
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  RNA

Projects and Partnerships

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Wikimedia

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WikiData Molecular Biology - ensuring accuracy of molecular biology items in WikiData

Gene Wiki - create and improve articles on all human genes in Wikipedia

Societies

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• ISCB article competition - an annual Wikipedia article competition in association with the International Society for Computational Biology: entries for the 9th edition of the competition are open from 26 Aug 2019 - 15 May 2020.
• ISMB-ECCB Editathons - annual Wikipedia writing workshops at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology conference.

Institutions

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Pfam and Rfam databases - Since 2012, Pfam and Rfam have been transcluding Wikipedia pages as the descriptors for protein and RNA families.

RCSB Protein DataBank - In 2014, WikiProject Biophysics persuaded David Goodsell and the Protein DataBank release all Molecule of the Month images under CC BY open licenses.

Journals

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PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS Genetics - publishing v:PLOS Topic Pages, where articles in those journals are written in a Wikipedia style and copied over after publication in the journal.

Gene - publishing Gene Wiki Reviews, where review articles on gene families in Gene have an accompanying Wikipedia article written by the same authors.

WikiJournal of Science - putting new and existing Wikipedia articles through academic peer review and publication.

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MCB

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MCB articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	9	4	3	6			22
FL		1					1
GA	17	16	15	13			61
B	51	213	275	327		7	873
C	67	256	618	1,182		56	2,179
Start	20	286	908	5,814		68	7,096
Stub		2	216	17,764		38	18,020
List	4	7	35	62	242	21	371
Category					892		892
Disambig					43		43
File					37		37
Project					8		8
Redirect	2	19	83	981	903		1,988
Template					307		307
Other			1		1		2
Assessed	170	804	2,154	26,149	2,433	190	31,900
Unassessed			6	20	3	170	199
Total	170	804	2,160	26,169	2,436	360	32,099
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 155,027			Ω = 5.49

Genetics

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Genetics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	1	1	1			8
FL		1					1
FM					15		15
GA	8	8	14	23			53
B	25	66	100	132		10	333
C	24	109	323	592		98	1,146
Start	3	65	349	1,292		269	1,978
Stub	1	2	62	1,520		159	1,744
List	5	7	8	38	5		63
Category					459		459
Disambig					4		4
File					27		27
Project					38		38
Redirect	2	2	16	74	138		232
Template					66		66
NA					1		1
Other					2		2
Assessed	73	261	873	3,672	755	536	6,170
Unassessed				6		95	101
Total	73	261	873	3,678	755	631	6,271
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 26,041			Ω = 4.95

Computational Biology

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Computational Biology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1	2	4	5			12
B	9	32	32	50		3	126
C	9	41	62	129		7	248
Start	1	39	145	495		11	691
Stub			28	380		9	417
List		10	17	19			46
Category					33		33
Project					59		59
Redirect		1	9	28	18		56
Template					6		6
Other			1		2		3
Assessed	20	125	298	1,106	118	30	1,697
Unassessed		1				3	4
Total	20	126	298	1,106	118	33	1,701
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,355			Ω = 4.92

Gene Wiki

Gene Wiki articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
B		1	51		1	53
C		9	46		4	59
Start		2	77		4	83
Stub			1,564		1	1,565
List	4					4
Category				12		12
Project				3		3
Redirect			80	9		89
NA				1		1
Other				2		2
Assessed	4	12	1,818	27	10	1,871
Total	4	12	1,818	27	10	1,871
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,200			Ω = 5.80

How the rating scale works

Article classification Main page: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment The standard system on wikipedia is for each article to be assigned two grades: one for completeness and another for significance. These grades can be easily assigned to articles by installing the Rater tool. Ratings can also edited manually by adding and/or updating the {{WPMOLBIO|class= |importance= }} template on that article's talk page. If you have improved an article, you may adjust the entry in the template yourself, or you may simply put a remark in the talk page that improvements have been done. Quality scale Class is determined by how well written an article is based on completeness, clarity and referencing. Articles typically are slowly improved up the levels until they reach A-Class, at which point they go through a more thorough review process with strict criteria to become Good Articles (GA) and Featured Articles (FA). The quality level is set using the |class= attribute in the {{WPMOLBIO}} template in the article's talk page. FA — Among the best articles that Wikipedia has to offer. These articles have been through an extensive review process to meet the highest standards. GA — Articles that have been reviewed and meet the good article standards. A — Excellent articles of a length suitable for the subject that provide a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic. B — Articles that contain most of the necessary material but have significant gaps, missing elements or references. C — Articles that are missing important content, contains irrelevant material, or are poorly referenced. Start — Articles that have a meaningful amount of good content, but are still weak in many areas, possibly lacking a key element such as a standard infobox. Stub — Articles that are either very short or rough collections of information that will need much work. Importance scale Article significance is based loosely on how aware the general population is of the topic, and therefore how likely they are to consult Wikipedia. Importance is set using the |importance= attribute in the {{WPMOLBIO}} template in the article's talk page. You can additionally set the importance to a specific taskforce (details here). Top — Subjects that are first closely examined in high school or earlier (bacteria, amino acid), or that receive significant attention in the media (stem cell). High — Subjects that are generally examined at university (RNA polymerase) or are briefly mentioned at the high school level (endoplasmic reticulum). Mid — Subjects that are examined at later years of university courses (chaperonin, complement system, RuBisCO). Low — Obscure subjects that are important to researchers in the specific field (UvrABC endonuclease).

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Style guide for gene and protein articles

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