Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/JHU MolBio Ogg 2013/Group 82C

Group 82C

This is the Wikipedia page for 410.602 Molecular Biology, Spring, 2013, group 82C. This group will be working on the adenosine diphosphate article.

Use the talk page here to collaborate as a group, when learning to use and navigate Wikipedia, assessing articles, or for any other topic.

Use this page (not the talk page) for article assessments; rationale for selecting an article; etc.

Please create a new section here for each of those assignments.

Article selection rational

The article our group has chosen for editing and improvement is adenosine diphosphate.

• First and foremost our rational for choosing adenosine diphosphate as our group project was based on its STUB class status within Wikipedia. As It stands currently the article is a short description that lacks depth and detail. Moreover, under the traffic statistics page its observed that over 30,000 viewers had accessed the page in the previous 90 days. The high traffic of this article suggests a high priority for editing and improvement. It is our opinion that the information accessed on the page be abundant enough for viewers to leave with an in depth understanding of ADP and more information than they need on the subject should be available on the page.
• Just to reiterate what was stated above by John, we agreed as a group that this adenosine diphosphate article was one that could greatly benefit from our collaborative additions. This is a page that is viewed quite often, yet has very little information on its specific topic. It simply has one image, and barely two paragraphs describing what is a very important biomolecule. Both John and I believe that we can improve upon this page and make it much more useful to inquiring minds. It was for those reasons, that we chose the adenosine diphosphate page.

Initial Assessment of Articles by Jengel11

Article 1. Restriction Site

• This is a very basic article and a good example of a "stub". While there is some good information within the description, it lacks flow of organized thoughts and detail.
• only two cited source of reference are available.
• While short and lacking detail the article is neutral and to the point.

Suggested improvements

• Illustrations and visual representation is needed.
• Applications and uses of restriction sites.
• A table of known restriction sites and a link to restriction enzymes.
• Overall, more information is needed.

Possible useful References

• Alfred M. Pingoud (2004). Restriction Endonucleases (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-20502-0.
• Matsudaira, Paul T.; Lodish, Harvey F.; Arnold Berk; Kaiser, Chris; Monty Krieger; Matthew P Scott; Anthony Bretscher; Hidde Ploegh (2008). Molecular cell biology. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-7601-7.
• Roberts RJ (January 1980). "Restriction and modification enzymes and their recognition sequences". Nucleic Acids Res. 8 (1): r63–r80. doi:10.1093/nar/8.1.197-d. PMC 327257. PMID 6243774.

Article 2: FsrA

• Extremely elementary description and lacks a great deal of description.
• only two sources of reference material articles.
• Internal links for down-regulation, iron containing proteins (prosthetic groups).
• more information on the iron sparing response.

Suggested Improvements

• more references from diverse areas i.e. articles, books, journals, internal wiki links.
• visual representation of material.

Possible useful References

• Smaldone GT, Antelmann H, Gaballa A, Helmann JD (May 2012). "The FsrA sRNA and FbpB protein mediate the iron-dependent induction of the Bacillus subtilis lutABC iron-sulfur-containing oxidases". J. Bacteriol. 194 (10): 2586–93. doi:10.1128/JB.05567-11. PMC 3347220. PMID 22427629.
• Smaldone GT, Revelles O, Gaballa A, Sauer U, Antelmann H, Helmann JD (May 2012). "A global investigation of the Bacillus subtilis iron-sparing response identifies major changes in metabolism". J. Bacteriol. 194 (10): 2594–605. doi:10.1128/JB.05990-11. PMC 3347201. PMID 22389480.
• Richards GR, Vanderpool CK (October 2011). "Molecular call and response: the physiology of bacterial small RNAs". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1809 (10): 525–31. doi:10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.07.013. PMC 3186873. PMID 21843668.

Initial Assessment of Articles by PJCollettJHU

Article 1. Adenosine diphosphate

Quick Evaluation

This is a very basic page

Consists of barely two paragraphs

Written in basic English, professional, but not outstanding writing

Suggested Improvements

Instead of the list of "see also" articles, some of that information should be included in the article

Could benefit from more examples of how it ties into biology, biochemistry, etc.

Generally could use more "fleshing out" and a more professional/scientific writing style

Possible Useful References

Article 2: Nucleoside

Quick Evaluation

Very basic overview

Does have good image usage for examples of nucleosides

No outside referances, only internal wiki links

Suggested Improvements

Needs more detail

Needs referances

More scientific/professional writing

Possible Useful References

Unit 9 Progress report

• Organized the layout of the article in manner that helped the dissemination of information.
• Uploaded several relevant photos
• expanded on sections and added new sections with well cited sources.

Unit 14 Progress Report

• Expanded each section to include more information, or information that was more consise and clear.
• Fixed links
• Added additional internal links to Wikipedia pages
• Added "main page" where necessary
• Improved grammar