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This page is created because people might deem a RNA codon table to be more appropriate than a DNA codon table in the "Genetic Code" page. However, since a DNA codon table is generally more convenient for people who work with genomic data, then it may be preferred to have this table stored somewhere in wikipedia.

Potentially, this page can be merged to a short reference page for bioinformatics where tables of general amino acid properties are stored. Bobthefish2 (talk) 20:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've taken the liberty of redirecting to genetic code, as suggested in the AfD discussion, since all the relevant information already exists there. -- Radagast3 (talk) 09:10, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • I've taken the liberty of undoing your redirect, since that had little difference to a delete and as far as I know, the decision by the admin was to keep it. While merging this to another page is definitely appropriate, the way that you've accomplished that is not very appropriate by my standards. To repeat myself: While the tables are nearly identical to the RNA codon tables, they also represent the genetic code in a form that's more convenient to most biologists. And even though it is definitely trivial to scroll down the Genetic Code page to retrieve the table and replace uracils with thymines, I assure you that it gets tiresome after doing this for the n-th time. If you feel a strong urge to apply your wiki standards, then maybe you should start with merging/redirecting unigram, bigram, trigram to ngram or natural logarithm to logarithm. Bobthefish2 (talk) 01:49, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It would help enormously if you rephrased the lead paragraph such that it started "DNA Codon Tables set out the genetic code associated with DNA" ... or somesuch form of words, to provide a clear definition of the table. For me, the current wording entirely fails to do that. I understand why you thik this article is important. I do not understand why the article does not make clear to me what it is. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The wording seems clear enough to me. However, feel free to change the introduction if you can make it better. Bobthefish2 (talk) 19:18, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It is not clear to me, and I am sufficiently unfamiliar with the subject matter to be the wrong person to improve it. And for heavens sake, look at any other wikipedia article and you'll find that it'll tend to start with an emboldened subject followed by a succinct definition. Why is this the exception? And is starting with the definite article sensible? As far as I'm aware, there are at least two genetic codes, one for RNA and one for DNA. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:08, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The topic of the page is supposed to be relatively technical. While it's not rocket science, it is also not meant for anyone who doesn't know anything about basic molecular biology. Anyway, I redid the context. If someone disagrees with the way that is written, then he/she is welcomed to edit it. And lastly, there's only one known naturally-occurring genetic code but there are a number of common ways of representing this genetic code (i.e. DNA and RNA codon tables). Now, I hope the next criticism will come from someone who actually knows about the topic (i.e. a scientist). Bobthefish2 (talk) 18:43, 24 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

#googlenexus 04/05/2011 Twitter Competition

First here, even though I was about three tweets too late to win. Thanks, Wikipedia! --82.19.217.86 (talk) 01:23, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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