Proud product of the Cambrian explosion.
To-do list
- Protein still needs, at least, an evolution section and something about metabolism of amino acids, and the methods section is sloppy
- Gene is getting better, but still badly needs references at least. I'm thinking that I'm not the person to be fixing up these very basic general articles
- Cell nucleus still needs work
- Molecular dynamics needs rescuing, and the redundancy with molecular mechanics and force field (chemistry) needs cleanup
- Protein folding has been on my "next" list for a while now
- David Baker the biochemist deserves an article
- I don't think I'm going to do something about this as much as I'm going to complain about it, but having assessed some of the amino acid articles - most of them are either painfully incomplete or full of uncited speculative nutritional jabber. Not a good sign.
Articles I have contributed to
Protein structure and folding
- alpha helix and beta sheet
- primary structure
- secondary structure
- tertiary structure
- quaternary structure
- Structural Classification of Proteins
- beta helix
- beta-propeller domain
- globin fold
- helix bundle
- homeodomain fold
- beta barrel
- beta hairpin
- Rossman fold
- alpha solenoid
- polyproline helix
- thioredoxin fold
- trefoil knot fold
- DNA clamp - Did you know? factoid
- pilin
- tubby protein
- leucine-rich repeat
- EF hand
- folding funnel
- native contact
- hydrophobic collapse
- conformational entropy
- downhill folding
Proteins and complexes
- transcriptome
- TIM barrel
- villin
- Rop protein
- barnase
- barstar
- prolyl isomerase
- S1 nuclease
- enhanceosome
- aspartokinase
- heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle
- capping enzyme
- polyadenine polymerase
- PABPII
- cleavage stimulatory factor
- cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor
- cleavage factor
- protein K
- guanylyl transferase
- parvulin
- FKBP
Nucleic acids
Computational biology
- molecular mechanics
- protein structure prediction
- protein-protein interaction prediction
- chemical file format
- dead-end elimination
- self-consistent mean field (biology)
- Ewald summation
- sequence profiling tool
- force field (chemistry)
- sequence alignment - now a featured article!
- multiple sequence alignment
- structural alignment
- computational phylogenetics
- sequence alignment software
- phylogenetics software
- homology modeling
Chemistry
- micelle
- excimer
- beta-peptide
- CHAPS detergent
- hydrogen - former Science Collaboration, current FA candidate
- alkalide
- orthohydrogen
- 2-furanone
- butenolide
Other biology
- DNA repair
- cell cycle
- artificial selection
- reporter gene
- P22 phage
- crossbreed
- phi value analysis
- proline
- nuclease protection assay
- coalescent theory
- gene fixation
- processivity
- protein
- list of standard amino acids - split
- crude lysate
- cell nucleus - current MCB Article Improvement Drive selection
- Irrational inclusionism is just as bad as irrational deletionism.
- I don't understand why people like their userpages full of userboxes that say trivial things like "This user eats pizza."
- All encyclopedic subjects are equally worthy of an article, but some are more equal than others.
- Similarly, no one contributor is indispensable but some are more dispensable than others.
- There's more than one way to do it. Perl is a good model for life.
- Wikipedia saltationism may not exist, but I like the idea. Great improvements to encyclopedia articles come from knowledgeable users making sizable and systematic contributions in their area of expertise, rather than from layer upon layer of incremental minor additions, expansions, and clarifications, each from an individual user with only a passing familiarity with the subject.
- Corollary: subject matter specialists are good things.
- Corollary: that doesn't mean typo fixers and vandalism reverters aren't good things.
- WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA are perfectly fine policies. Bludgeoning people over the head with them is just being passive-aggressive.
- People should take internal drama a lot less seriously.
- Referencing is important and should not be treated as something you can ignore unless you want a featured article.
- Too many awesome people end up leaving and too many distinctly not-awesome people don't.
- Eschew circumlocution. If we could reuse all the time that's been invested in telling people that whatever they just did wasn't "voting", how many new and improved articles would we have?
My one concession to userboxes
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