User:Cameronlimke/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Genome informatics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article for evaluation because I find genetics to be extremely interesting and crucial for understanding ourselves as humans in order to better understand the world around us. My first impression of this article is that it was not what I believed myself to be clicking on in the first place. Whereas I thought the article was going to be more descriptive about each individual process for genome analysis, the article was rather short and gave a general overview of each type of analytical measure used for sequencing genomes with links to each specific process.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)


 * This article centers on an information-rich topic that has been the subject of scientific research for decades, with the majority of the article consisting of brief descriptions of the methods used for genetic information processing.
 * Of the 10 sources cited, 5 are published books, 2 are academic journals, and one is from a videotaped conference on Genetic Informatics, providing high quality sources for use in the article which is good to see.
 * The page lacks strong descriptions for each element of genetic informatics and relies heavily on the links it provides to individual Wiki pages for each process.
 * Gives a brief overview of applications for Genome Informatics but does not provide strong detail about each application and how it relates to the overall usage of genome informatics and I feel that this section could be expanded.
 * Sentences are very short throughout the article and mostly operate in a type of list function rather than analysis and description.
 * I was also hoping to see a history section included in this article as well, however there was none to be found; I would suggest one be added to show how Genetic Informatics has developed over time.

Overall the article is constructed well, I simply wish there was more information and description throughout the piece rather than relying heavily on providing links to other articles. ~