Talk:List of biomolecules

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I think this article needs a different title or some kind of statement of purpose. The list of all biomolecules could be taken to include every gene product of every genome, every transcript from which they derive, every intron that was spliced out, etc. I assume we don't want all that. 168... 04:58, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)


 * As it says in the first sentence (with emphasis added): "This page aims to list articles on Wikipedia that describe particular biomolecules or types of biomolecules." If you to add an article for every gene product, sure, go ahead and list them :-/ Stewart Adcock 05:23, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Break up of List of compounds
The page List of compounds has grown very large (64kB or so) and unwieldy, so the suggestion was made to split the page. I have been working on this. The initial proposal was for list of inorganic compounds and list of organic compounds, and these pages have been created, with heavy pruning of non-existent or obscure compounds, as well as generic terms like "carbohydrates". However the organic list is still very large and likely to grow- one way to bring it down a lot would be to remove things such as large proteins and enzymes (that are not simple organic molecules) and place them here (if they're not here already). Thus compounds like glucose and pinene would remain on both lists, but things like &alpha;-amylase and Corticotropin-releasing_hormone would only be found here. Of course there are grey areas- alanine belongs on both, but I would like just to place dipeptides here does this seem reasonable? I'm an organic chemist but I'm pretty weak on biochemistry, so please tell me if I'm going wrong, before I spend a lot of time on this.

The ultimate goal would be to make List of compounds into an elaborate redirect page, sending people here, or to List of organic compounds or to List of inorganic compounds. Walkerma 00:02, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

To help visualization I suggest to view through chemicalize.org
To help visualization of these names I suggest to view through chemicalize.org, see this example Alex Allardyce (talk) 09:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)