User:Ppgardne

In real life I am Paul Gardner. I work at the University of Otago where I teach into Bioinformatics, Genomics, Biochemistry and Genetics courses. Occasionally I publish articles about being a Wikipedian.

I have worked at the University of Canterbury and on the Rfam project at the Sanger Institute and spent time as a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen and Bielefeld University and was a student at Massey University. I am interested in all things ncRNA related, particularly RNA bioinformatic analysis.

I'm a member of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Project and the RNA Project.

RNA Biology
I am the Assistant Editor in Chief for the journal RNA Biology, where I run the RNA families track. The requirements for publishing in this track are a short article about a ncRNA, an alignment and consensus structure in Stockholm format and a Wikipedia article. You can read more at NatureNews, WikiNews or my blog post at Xfam.

If you're interested in writing an article for the journal then here are the guidelines and here is a rough template for the Wikipedia article:
 * RNA families template
 * RfamFamilies to be built

Rfam

 * Here is a list of Wikipedia pages used for annotating Rfam 9.1.
 * Here is a list of Wikipedia pages used for annotating Rfam 10.0.
 * Here is a list of Wikipedia pages used for annotating Rfam 10.1 <-- is now a broken link
 * Here is a list of Wikipedia pages used for annotating Rfam 11.1

Useful links

 * GeneWikiGenerator
 * Gene_Wiki
 * Cite PMID Template
 * Wikipedia template filling
 * GoogleScholar2wikiref

Wikipedia outreach

 * Sanger Training
 * Cancer Research UK Academy

miRNA articles

 * mir-451 microRNA
 * mir-221 microRNA
 * mir-210 microRNA
 * MIRN21
 * miR-122
 * mir-96

Lunchipedia 2/11/2010


 * bantam microRNA
 * mir-22 microRNA
 * mir-31 microRNA
 * mir-126
 * mir-127
 * mir-132
 * mir-137
 * mir-143
 * mir-145
 * mir-155
 * mir-184
 * mir-200
 * miR-203
 * mir-205
 * mir-223 microRNA
 * mir-320 microRNA
 * mir-375 microRNA
 * mir-433

Others

 * Bacillus subtilis BSR sRNAs
 * Dictyostelium class I RNA
 * MALAT1-associated small cytoplasmic RNA
 * Translational_frameshift
 * ENOD40
 * Neisseria sigma-E sRNA
 * User:Ppgardne/Ruth_Nussinov
 * User:Ppgardne/Paperpile
 * User:Ppgardne/CsrA protein
 * User:Ppgardner/RC3H1 (gene)

Sandpit

 * blah
 * Sandpit
 * LR-PK1
 * User:Ppgardne/introvert
 * User:Ppgardne/exRNA
 * User:Ppgardne/taxonomy
 * Juliet Gerrard

Books

 * User:Ppgardne/Books/NZ wildlife

Journal Club

 * RNAML Hinxton Genome Campus RNA Journal Club