Talk:Hydrophobicity scales

accommodate non-polar species
I find this expression inability of water molecules to accommodate non polar species in the first section awkward. "species" refers to "molecules", but is more diffuse. Also, "accommodate" is diffuse. "accommodate" seems wrong when referring to singular molecule-molecule interaction. I would say that the heart of the matter is that water molecules loose potential energy when they relocate to interact with each other, rather than with the hydrophobic molecule (group). The hydrophobic gains some potential energy in the relocation to interact with other hydrophobic, but not as much. --Ettrig (talk) 06:03, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I looked in a biochemistry textbook and made a rewrite. Maybe still not good. --Ettrig (talk) 18:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Relevance of transmembrane proteins
Neither intro nor figure caption explains why it is meaningful to have a picture of transmembrane protein molecules at top right of article. Hydrophobicity is what makes these molecules stay put in this relation to the membrane? --Ettrig (talk) 18:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, and that should be explained.Biophys (talk) 23:55, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Intro not sufficiently specific
This article is not about hydrophobicity, it is about hydrophobicity scales. But after the first sentence in the intro, there is nothing about the scales in the rest of the intro. --Ettrig (talk) 18:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, partly fixed, but the intro is still very poor.Biophys (talk) 23:55, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Merge or "see also" with hydropathy index ?
Index in this context is a synonym for scale and so it seems a merge in one direction or the other may behoove the two pages. Kmcallenberg (talk) 05:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's exactly the same. The "index" should be a redirect page.Biophys (talk) 23:55, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

The Table might be used in this article, but rather not.Biophys (talk) 14:40, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I was actually looking for those as I had seen them before here, so they are useful (thanks for keeping them in the discussion page). --Squidonius (talk) 01:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)