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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

Articles for deletion

• 17 Nov 2024 – Dihydroxyphenylalanine ammonia-lyase (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jo-Jo Eumerus (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 20 Nov 2024 – Multifunctional peptide (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c): A WP:DICTDEF and not even an accurate one...the term "multifunctional peptide" is used to mean many different things in biochemistry, including the definition given but also peptides that have more than one function, peptides chemically mod ... and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 22 Nov 2024

Redirects for discussion

• 11 Nov 2024 – Ro (antigen) (talk · edit · hist) →Anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Nov 2024 – Autoantigen Ro (talk · edit · hist) →Calreticulin was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Oct 2024 – Chaotolerance (talk · edit · hist) →Chaotropic agent was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 02 Sep 2024 – Vavilovian mimicry (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); see discussion
• 20 May 2024 – Mating of yeast (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RowanJ LP (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 20 Nov 2024 – COVID-19 lab leak theory (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 03 Nov 2024 – Macromolecular assembly (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Macromolecular cages by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Sep 2024 – Integral monotopic protein (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Peripheral membrane protein by Willmskinner (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Jul 2024 – S-methyl-5'-thioadenosine phosphorylase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to MTAP by LR.127 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Jul 2024 – Transmission electron cryomicroscopy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cryogenic_electron_microscopy by Niashervin (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 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 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

• 14 Oct 2024 – Draft:NatB (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LaKaSil (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Optical Pooled Screening (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC

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