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The Computational Biology taskforce is aimed at improving and organising articles on computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology and related topics. More broadly, the taskforce aims to increase participation of computational biology researchers in English Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, as well as cultivate Wikipedia-related initiatives with academic publishers and learned societies.
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Goals
The overall goal of the taskforce is to improve the article quality of Wikipedia articles within the scope. The taskforce will assist this goal by:


 * 1) Identifying specific areas for improvement within existing articles
 * 2) Identifying missing topics
 * 3) Expand and improve entry pages, such as Computational biology
 * 4) Provide a systematic structure of concepts within computational biology, using categories, templates and navigation-boxes.
 * 5) Organising articles to provide up-to-date coverage of relevant topics
 * 6) Potentially implement other quality control mechanisms (e.g. scientific peer review)

Scope
Topics of interest include:


 * "Classical" bioinformatics (i.e. sequence analysis, phylogenetics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, software tools and databases)
 * Simulation, modelling and analysis of biological systems (as in systems biology) of any scale (molecular structure, gene regulation, metabolism, protein interactions, cell physiology, cell populations, tissue organisation, organ modelling)
 * Computational neuroscience, computational immunology
 * Analysis and integration of biological concepts (e.g. in ontologies) and of biological data (e.g. microarray or imaging data)
 * Important algorithms or techniques widely used in the field (Next generation sequencing analyses, variant calling, etc.)
 * Biographies of notable computational biologists
 * Centers and institutions of global prominence in the field


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Tasks
Below is a To-Do list of tasks for the taskforce, if you complete a task or have identified issues the taskforce can help with, you can edit the below template here.

Categories
The taskforce aims to implement meaningful and useful categorisation of articles. Here are some current categories of interest, feel free to edit this list:


 * Systems biology: Systems biology, Omics
 * Bioinformatics: Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics software, Bioinformatics organizations, Bioinformatics algorithms
 * Sequence analysis: Biological sequence format
 * Mathematical and theoretical biology: Mathematical and theoretical biology
 * Databases: Biological databases

Participants
If you would like to join please add your signature by adding # ~ to the bottom of this list.


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 * 2) Alexbateman (talk) 14:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 3) Allens (talk) 12:09, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 4) Andreas (talk) 16:14, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * 5) Arboviral (talk) 10:00, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Arh145 (talk) 07:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
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 * 20) Guy Macon (talk) 19:35, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
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 * 23) Benjamin Good (talk) 15:49, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
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 * 55) Tomás Di Domenico (talk) 11:36, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * 68)  Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 02:38, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * 85) Bides_time (talk) 01:52, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 86) Kolekar Pandurang (talk) 07:02, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 87) TiagoHenrique (talk) 08:49, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 88) Benno89 (talk) 16:33, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
 * 89) Bioscintillator (talk) 19:03, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
 * 90) RC Howe (talk) 01:20, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 91) Louis Maddox (talk) 23:53, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 92) Karroje (talk) 19:37, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 93) Cal.monast (talk) 19:38, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 94) Eminent Junkie (talk) 18:36, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 95) Yuwan.cq (talk) 11:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 96) Hdash (talk) 03:48, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 97) Wickr (talk) 10:21, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * 99) Alistairirvine (talk) 00:53, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 100) Kiwwa (talk) 20:49, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 101) Alicehoy (talk) 10:49, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 102) Cjpenaponton (talk) 06:30, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 103) Chrisy88 (talk) 05:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * 105) Peter Georgeson (talk) 13:02, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 106) Marinka Zitnik (talk) 10:01, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 107) DancingBal (talk) 15:43, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 108) Richard☺Decal (talk) 07:19, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * 119) Facundo Orts (talk) 12:29, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 121) Nisthocal (talk) 16:50, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 122) LeaPoli (talk) 17:22, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 123) Vickyrv (talk) 18:14, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 124) Diego 2916 (talk) 18:53, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 125) Mariafreiberger (talk) 20:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 126) Nahuel Gonz (talk) 20:36, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 127) Marcia Hasenahuer (talk) 23:59, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 128) Scigenis (talk) 21:04, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
 * 129) Elsaezquerro33 (talk) 18:40, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 130) Ilikelifesciences (talk) 13:33, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 131) ArthFrown (talk) 13:52, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
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 * 133) Kieran (talk) 19:27, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 134) Rohitgupta89 (talk) 18:43, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 135) Maonao (talk) 21:13, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 136) Ck841312 (talk) 13:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 137) Stewart Little (talk) 14:12, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 138) Erictleung (talk) 12:40, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 139) Cbouyio (talk) 06:59, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * 140) PalashSethi (talk) 06:08, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 141) Twesigomwedavid (talk) 13:59, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 142) Dhruv Ch (talk) 17:15, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 143) Abigail Wood (talk) 12:29, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * 144) Danfdeblasio (talk) 17:42, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * 151) Trevor2211 (talk) 20:41, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
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 * 11)  SuperiorWalrus (talk) (contribs)  04:09, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
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 * 13) cbouyio (talk) 09:43, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
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 * 15) Salubrious Toxin (talk) 15:13, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
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 * 17) TiagoLubiana (talk) 11:30, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 18) Blankepitaph (talk) 23:52, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
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PLOS topic pages
The Computational Biology taskforce collaborates with the journal PLOS Computational Biology on the Topic Pages initiative.

If you're preparing a topic pages submission and need help or advice from a Wikipedian, reach out to an active member of WikiProject Molecular Biology.



ISCB article competition
Taskforce members organise an annual Wikipedia article competition in association with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

The competition, running since 2012, awards students and trainees for the best contributions to computational biology-related articles. Entry is open internationally, to students and trainees of any level. We particularly encourage lecturers or course organisers to use this competition as a class assignment.

The current status of the competition is:

Queries specific to the competition can be addressed to Alastair Kilpatrick or asked on the WikiProject Molecular Biology talk page.

ISMB Editathons
There have been ongoing efforts to run editathons at ISMB and related conferences, to recruit bioinformatics experts to contribute to Wikipedia.

Tools
Main tool page

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references.

Checklinks - Edit and repair external links.

Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.

Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Computational Biology


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