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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    WikiProject Molecular Biology Taskforces

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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

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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.

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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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    referencing advice
    referencing advice for natural sciences
    referencing advice for medicine
    notability advice for molecular biology topics

    Style guides edit

    Style guide for gene and protein articles
    Style guide for diagrams
    PyMol Tutorial

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    A training guide for scientists
    Advice for research scientists
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    Automated gene stub creation tool

    WikiProject Molecular Biology is one of the main groups within WikiProject Biology and covers sub-cellular biology. However, it inevitably has plenty of overlap with wither Biology projects as well as several other Science projects.