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WikiProject Molecular Biology

A WikiProject to co-ordinate various aspects of molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, microbiology, biochemistry, biophysics, computational biology and related fields. Broadly, it focuses on biology at the cellular and subcellular levels.

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Proposed deletions

• 28 Oct 2025 – David Holcman (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Yamla (t · c) was deproded by Eva UX (t · c) on 29 Oct 2025

Categories for discussion

• 21 Oct 2025 – Category:Costa Rican biochemists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – Category:Enzymes templates (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by CambrianCrab (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 31 Oct 2025 – Pregnenolone (disambig) (talk · edit · hist) →Pregnenolone (disambiguation) was RfDed by ArthananWarcraft (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Oct 2025 – Suicide enzyme (talk · edit · hist) →Suicide inhibition was RfDed by Preimage (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Sep 2025 – Big gene (talk · edit · hist) →gene was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 27 Oct 2025 – COVID-19 lab leak theory (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion

Featured article reviews

• 25 Aug 2025 – Enzyme kinetics (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 28 Oct 2025 – Heritability of IQ (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Katzrockso (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 29 Oct 2025 – Microfilament (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Actin filament by Iztwoz (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 29 Oct 2025 – Genetic redundancy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Gene redundancy by Philosophistry (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 28 Jul 2025 – Fatty acid metabolism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Feb 2025 – Cloning (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Sep 2024 – KIF1A (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2620:1D5:A00:4:C86A:1126:2736:27AF (t · c); see discussion
• 06 May 2024 – Tether (cell biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Bluescreening (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Jan 2024 – Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2023 – Formylation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Aug 2022 – Epidermal growth factor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kupirijo (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Dec 2020 – Pilin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Nov 2020 – Holocarboxylase synthetase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Sep 2019 – Protein kinase B (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by BrownHairedGirl (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 11 Oct 2025 – Draft:Joaquim Roca (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by OscarCW88 (t · c)

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About

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WikiProject Molecular Biology Taskforces

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  Molecular and Cell Biology
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  Genetics
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  Computational Biology
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  Biophysics
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  Metabolic Pathways
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  Cell Signaling
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  RNA

Projects and Partnerships

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Wikimedia

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WikiData Molecular Biology – ensuring accuracy of molecular biology items in WikiData.

Gene Wiki – create and improve all Wikipedia articles on human genes.

Societies

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• ISCB article competition – an annual Wikipedia article competition in association with the International Society for Computational Biology: entries for the 9th edition of the competition are open from 26 Aug 2019 - 15 May 2020.
• ISMB-ECCB Editathons - annual Wikipedia writing workshops at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology conference.

Institutions

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Pfam and Rfam databases - Since 2012, Pfam and Rfam have been transcluding Wikipedia pages as the descriptors for protein and RNA families.

RCSB Protein DataBank - In 2014, WikiProject Biophysics persuaded David Goodsell and the Protein DataBank release all Molecule of the Month images under CC BY open licenses.

Journals

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PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS Genetics - publishing v:PLOS Topic Pages, where articles in those journals are written in a Wikipedia style and copied over after publication in the journal.

Gene - publishing Gene Wiki Reviews, where review articles on gene families in Gene have an accompanying Wikipedia article written by the same authors.

WikiJournal of Science - putting new and existing Wikipedia articles through academic peer review and publication.

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MCB

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MCB articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	9	4	3	5			21
FL		1					1
GA	17	17	15	13			62
B	51	216	283	358	1	7	916
C	66	255	634	1,187		58	2,200
Start	20	278	889	5,943		68	7,198
Stub		2	209	17,584		61	17,856
List	9	7	35	62	241	21	375
Category					892		892
Disambig					46		46
File					37		37
Project					8		8
Redirect	3	21	84	987	904		1,999
Template					307		307
Other				1			1
Assessed	175	801	2,152	26,140	2,436	215	31,919
Unassessed			5	19	3	141	168
Total	175	801	2,157	26,159	2,439	356	32,087
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 154,804			Ω = 5.48

Genetics

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Genetics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	1	1	1			8
FL		1					1
FM					15		15
GA	8	8	14	23			53
B	25	67	103	133		12	340
C	23	110	322	615		108	1,178
Start	3	62	350	1,297		276	1,988
Stub	1	2	58	1,502		155	1,718
List	10	7	8	38	5		68
Category					458		458
Disambig					4		4
File					27		27
Project					38		38
Redirect	3	2	17	76	140		238
Template					66		66
NA					1		1
Other					2		2
Assessed	78	260	873	3,685	756	551	6,203
Unassessed				3		78	81
Total	78	260	873	3,688	756	629	6,284
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 26,086			Ω = 4.94

Computational Biology

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Computational Biology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1	2	4	5			12
B	10	33	32	52		3	130
C	9	40	64	138		9	260
Start	1	39	149	502		10	701
Stub			25	366		9	400
List		15	17	19			51
Category					34		34
Project					59		59
Redirect		1	9	30	19		59
Template					7		7
Other			1				1
Assessed	21	130	301	1,112	119	31	1,714
Unassessed						1	1
Total	21	130	301	1,112	119	32	1,715
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,365			Ω = 4.90

Gene Wiki

Gene Wiki articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
B		1	51		1	53
C		9	46		4	59
Start		2	81		4	87
Stub			1,560		1	1,561
List	9					9
Category				12		12
Project				3		3
Redirect			80	9		89
NA				1		1
Other				1		1
Assessed	9	12	1,818	26	10	1,875
Total	9	12	1,818	26	10	1,875
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,196			Ω = 5.79

How the rating scale works

Article classification

Main page: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment

The standard system on wikipedia is for each article to be assigned two grades: one for completeness and another for significance. These grades can be easily assigned to articles by installing the Rater tool. Ratings can also edited manually by adding and/or updating the {{WPMOLBIO|class= |importance= }} template on that article's talk page. If you have improved an article, you may adjust the entry in the template yourself, or you may simply put a remark in the talk page that improvements have been done.

Quality scale

Class is determined by how well written an article is based on completeness, clarity and referencing. Articles typically are slowly improved up the levels until they reach A-Class, at which point they go through a more thorough review process with strict criteria to become Good Articles (GA) and Featured Articles (FA). The quality level is set using the |class= attribute in the {{WPMOLBIO}} template in the article's talk page.

• FA — Among the best articles that Wikipedia has to offer. These articles have been through an extensive review process to meet the highest standards.
• GA — Articles that have been reviewed and meet the good article standards.
• A — Excellent articles of a length suitable for the subject that provide a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic.
• B — Articles that contain most of the necessary material but have significant gaps, missing elements or references.
• C — Articles that are missing important content, contains irrelevant material, or are poorly referenced.
• Start — Articles that have a meaningful amount of good content, but are still weak in many areas, possibly lacking a key element such as a standard infobox.
• Stub — Articles that are either very short or rough collections of information that will need much work.

Importance scale

Article significance is based loosely on how aware the general population is of the topic, and therefore how likely they are to consult Wikipedia. Importance is set using the |importance= attribute in the {{WPMOLBIO}} template in the article's talk page. You can additionally set the importance to a specific taskforce (details here).

• Top — Subjects that are first closely examined in high school or earlier (bacteria, amino acid), or that receive significant attention in the media (stem cell).
• High — Subjects that are generally examined at university (RNA polymerase) or are briefly mentioned at the high school level (endoplasmic reticulum).
• Mid — Subjects that are examined at later years of university courses (chaperonin, complement system, RuBisCO).
• Low — Obscure subjects that are important to researchers in the specific field (UvrABC endonuclease).

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Referencing and notability

referencing advice

referencing advice for natural sciences

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Style guides

Style guide for gene and protein articles

Style guide for diagrams

PyMol Tutorial

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A training guide for scientists

Advice for research scientists

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Tools

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