User:Mad Price Ball

Mad Price Ball

Personal web page: http://www.madpriceball.net/

My background: I'm co-founder of Open Humans. I've got experience in free culture / open source, personal data sharing, participant-engaged research, genomics and health research. I'm also a former member of George Church's lab.

Science myths: /Science_myths

Work area: /Draft

Articles I've worked on
Some articles I've done major rewriting on:
 * Genetics - (5/27/07) at the moment the page is almost entirely content I added
 * (before - what the page was like before I started)
 * 3/13/08 - Good Article
 * 3/25/08 - Featured Article


 * Sex - (3/31/08) complete rewrite
 * DNA replication - (3/5/08) complete rewrite
 * Genetic recombination
 * Polymerase chain reaction
 * Quantification of nucleic acids
 * DNA melting - merged two articles, later added info on experimental applications of DNA melting
 * Epigenetics

Articles I made:
 * PCR optimization - I made this because I wanted to move optimization trivia away from the main PCR article
 * Stop codon - Made this page to cover material about amber & ochre mutations and suppressors
 * Acacia drepanolobium - The whistling thorn acacia, created the article after reading a cover-story article about it and symbiotic ants in Science.
 * Double-flowered - the double flower phenotype, earliest documented floral mutation and popular in many cultivated flowers

Stubs I made:
 * Domatia

List of articles I have added pictures of cats to

 * Genetics
 * X chromosome inactivation
 * Cat

Article access statistics
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Images I've made
Some photos and SVG images I made with Inkscape... feel free to suggest other SVG images I could make!