Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology

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Scope
This project aims to improve and organise articles related to molecular and cell biology on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, drop by our discussion page or just look over the How you can help section below.

Goals
Collect and organize the wealth of information in databases and academic journals on genomes, proteomes and biological functions to ensure that it is accessible to both researchers and laypeople Improve articles to featured article status, especially vital articles, with a particular focus on subjects that are discussed at the primary and secondary school level Create a standard system for presenting the information about the proteins and cells that are discussed in Wikipedia articles

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How the project can help you


Our discussion page is a great hub for asking advice, bringing up ideas, suggesting articles for creation, and requesting reviews



We keep a collection of advice & resources pages on the challenges of writing science and molecular biology Wikipedia articles



Automatically updated lists of articles and significant updates can help you keep on top of important events and find stubs to expand

How you can help the project
Improve our articles
 * Add Infoboxes  – Help to standardise the data presented on protein articles
 * Add images     – Diagrams and figures are particularly important to science articles so you can look at our diagram guide for standardising protein and cell figures, or ask for help in creating and updating pictures on the Talk page
 * Add references – Reliable citations are needed articles to be a verifiable source of information

Collaboration                        – Contribute to a team effort by participating in the collaborations that come up on our talk page to improve relevant articles to featured article status Label articles of interest – Add pages to the project by putting the following template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to molecular and cell biology:

Adopt a stub   – There are many, many stubby MCB articles that have potential, see Category:Molecular and cellular biology stubs or Category:Stub-Class MCB articles. Categorisation                                  – Add protein articles to the list of types of proteins and place them in the proteins category or one of its subcategories. Recruitment                                     – Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in molecular and cell to contribute to Wikipedia. Clean up articles – There is a list of articles requiring clean up at

Create new articles
 * New gene stubs for WP:notable genes can be created using a tool:
 * Look up the "Gene ID" number on NCBI Gene for a missing gene entry in Homo sapiens
 * Append that number to  (e.g., TAAR9: 134860 – http://genewiki.sulab.org/wiki/article/create/134860/)
 * Navigate to that url, click "Toggle Stub Code", and copy/paste the output into a new Wikipedia article about the gene

Participants
There are two lists of project members
 * You may add yourself and your interests to this manually-updated members list in alphabetical order.
 * There is also an automatically-updated list of currently active participants.

You're also welcome to add the userbox  to your userpage.