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WikiProject Molecular Biology

WP:MOLBIO

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

Projects and Partnerships

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

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.

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

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

Metrics

MCB articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	9	4	3	5			21
FL		1					1
GA	16	16	16	13			61
B	53	208	270	302		2	835
C	66	252	597	1,135		51	2,101
Start	20	294	902	5,690		65	6,971
Stub		4	248	17,921		33	18,206
List	4	7	33	53	245	20	362
Category	1		1	3	892		897
Disambig				10	31		41
File					34		34
Project		1			7		8
Redirect	2	19	80	971	896		1,968
Template		1			306		307
NA				17	2		19
Draft			2				2
Assessed	171	807	2,152	26,120	2,413	171	31,834
Unassessed			7	22	3	196	228
Total	171	807	2,159	26,142	2,416	367	32,062
WikiWork factors (?)	ω = 155,128	Ω = 5.50

Genetics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	1	1	1			8
FL		1					1
FM					6		6
GA	8	8	15	21			52
B	24	65	98	125		7	319
C	25	108	314	580		93	1,120
Start	3	66	353	1,279		258	1,959
Stub	1	1	66	1,532		167	1,767
List	5	7	8	38	5		63
Category					459		459
Disambig					4		4
File					35		35
Project					38		38
Redirect	2	2	14	73	136		227
Template					65		65
Other				1			1
Assessed	73	259	869	3,650	748	525	6,124
Unassessed			1	5		105	111
Total	73	259	870	3,655	748	630	6,235
WikiWork factors (?)	ω = 25,933	Ω = 4.96

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

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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

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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).

Resources

Referencing and notability

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referencing advice

referencing advice for natural sciences

referencing advice for medicine

notability advice for molecular biology topics

Style guide for gene and protein articles

Style guide for diagrams

PyMol Tutorial

A training guide for scientists

Advice for research scientists

Article alerts

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Stubs for expansion

Articles requiring cleanup

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.