User:Noor5820/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gel electrophoresis

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.)

Gel electrophoresis is an assay that is always used in chemistry to identify a molecule or see how pure it is. In biochemistry lab, being able to understand how to read the results and how the technique is conducted is important to understand. From my first read of the article, I thought that it was clear and straightforward with the information presented and exactly how I was taught the technique.

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.)

The introductory section is concise and gives an overall explanation, it does not have any information that is not in the rest of the article, and it is concise. However it only gives a chart that briefly describes what is in the rest of the article, nothing that further explains what the article entails. However, the article is completely relevant to the main topic and everything is up-to-date, everything that is stated should be there and is not out of place. The author has a neutral point of view, and there is nothing that is overrepresented or underrepresented. In regards to the sources and references, links are appropriately placed and link to numerous articles that support the information in the article. The wording of the article is very clear, straightforward, and organized. The transitions to next topics were smooth and there was no difficulty reading it. It all helps with understanding the topic easily. Images and media in the article are captioned very well and explain what is going on very clearly. The photos explain gel electrophoresis well, but without reading the article, it would be difficult what the picture was exemplifying, aside from the captions, because they do not represent what is really the main point of the article or section they align with. The article is part of the WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology. The wikiproject, which can be found on the talk page, has rated the article as a B class, which means it is missing some information or has gaps, which can be seen in the 'visualization' and 'downstream processing' sections. The article gives several different ways that gel electrophoresis is conducted such as how it has denaturing gels or native gels. But it has mostly similarities to how it was taught in class.

Overall, the article had good and reliable general information about gel electrophoresis for someone who is learning it for the first time. The article was clear and organized and gave details about gels, the chemicals involved, and how the gel is analyzed. However, some places of improvement could be made in the visualization and downstream processing areas. For visualization, that part is necessary to explain more because it should be stated how the gels can be read and how to compare it to data. That part of the article is very brief on the topic and has no pictures, as well as downstream processing. Downstream processing is very brief and does not even have any images to explain it. Aside from those two points, the article had a great approach at explaining a complex assay. -- ~