User talk:Gabemck

Welcome!

Hello, Gabemck, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --HappyCamper 04:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Yes, I did like your edits to frog! Glad you created an account - hope you like the place and continue to add great stuff to the site. At the moment, I don't think it is technically possible to attribute the edits from the IP address to your account. This would involve the developers who wrote the software for Wikipedia to go directly to the databases manually, and they simply don't have the available resources to do so. I have been on Wikipedia for over a year now, and I have not heard of anyone who has had their edits reattributed in a long long time.

There are a few other alternatives though:

Some editors add a redirect from the IP address that they used to have to their new user account;
You can leave a note on your new user page indicating the previous IP that you edited under.
Some editors feel that in the grand scheme of things, those handful of edits from an IP address won't mattter so much

If you need help with any of these, please let me know. Oh, don't worry about posting at the top of my talk page - there is a reason why I put the key word anywhere at the top - it's my way of being welcoming to newcomers who might be reluctant to use talk pages in the beginning. Most Wikipedians end up posting at the bottom of a talk page, because there is a convenient little button with a plus sign (+) on each talk page which automatically adds a new message to that place.

I've also been an administrator for the site since last August, so if you have any questions about this site, please feel free to come by and ask them! It sounds like you know a lot about biology...There's a page called Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life, and this page can be accessed by typing in the shortcut WP:TOL in the seach box to your left. That might be a good place to start and meet other contributors with similar interests. There is also the Wikipedia:Sandbox (WP:SB) which you might find useful for trying out edits. I hope this helps, and as always, you're welcome to visit me on my talk page anytime. See you around! :-) --HappyCamper 04:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-Thanks for your help HC. Gabemck 04:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

EMSA

Hey, you editted "my" article on EMSA and commented that you take 20 mins to multiple hours to do an EMSA. It's just that this confuses me. The way I understand it, EMSA is supposed to tell us about the binding of say a protein to a DNA molecules - if you run a gel for hours then surely, all the protein will come off over time and it is very unlikely to meet another DNA molecule to bind to. How can you find the proportion of protein that binds DNA in solution if you're going to let them separate for hours? --Username132 (talk) 16:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]