Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/JHU MolBio Ogg SP14/Group 81H

Final progress report

• Contributions this unit
  • We added addition prose.
  • We addressed feedback from peer reviews, including adding wiki-links, rearranging sections, and re-wording.
• Significant contributions
  • The article consists of completely new prose.
  • Images have been added, as available, to enhance prose.
  • A table was added to help explain types of transformation.
• Main interactions
  • We had significant interaction with a few of our reviewers regarding wiki-linking, additional content, and reorganization.
  • Special thanks for the detailed feedback from magladem96, Amanaresi, and Klortho and especially the continuing help from Tatabox8.

Unit 12 progress report

• We contributed prose.
• We continued adding figures from Wikimedia Commons.
• We started to add a wiki table to replace subsections in the Types of transformation section.

Unit 10 progress report

• We contributed prose.
• We began adding figures from Wikimedia Commons.

Unit 8 progress report

• We contributed prose.
• We removed or rephrased and cited previously plagiarized prose.
• We restructured the previously written article into an outline that we proposed during Unit 7.

Basic Outline of our article

The outline for our article is in the sandbox page of Richarnj, which can be found here Nicole's Sandbox

Article selection rationale

We selected the article, Viral transformation, as the article we will focus on this semester because it was of great interest to both group members. When individually looking over the article list, we both ranked the Viral transformation article highly on our lists of what we wanted to learn more about. Viral transformation is a very unique biological event because it causes foreign DNA to be inserted into a host cell. The concept of viral transformation in molecular biology is based on the mechanism of viruses injecting their DNA into host cells to use the host's machinery to create more viral cells and thus replicate in the host. Molecular biologists and scientists have designed a technique in which the harmful viral proteins are removed from the virus, and the DNA of interest is inserted into the virus, and thus use as a vector to insert the gene of interest into the DNA. While this technique may seem simple, there are a lot of complications and speculations on the subject matter due to the fact that viruses aren't "alive" and thus scientists often have a difficult time to control the viruses. Henceforth, there is a lot of curiosity and scientific theories on this subject matter, and thus our group would like to further evaluate it. Additionally, this article is ranked with high importance by the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject allowing our contributions to be extremely useful to the scientific community.

Initial article assessments from Richarnj

Review of Polysomy article

The article Polysomy is classified by the Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProjects as a stub class article. In its current state reads as an expanded dictionary definition and uses only a glossary as a reference. To improved this article to good article status it needs considerably more content including both explanation and examples. It also needs to include more references to make the content verifiable beyond its basic definition. The article could also be improved with referenced images, figures, and statistics.

Bibliography:

1. Polysomy of chromosomes 1 and/or 19 is common and associated with less favorable clinical outcome in oligodendrogliomas: fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis of 84 consecutive cases.
2. HER2 in situ hybridization in breast cancer: clinical implications of polysomy 17 and genetic heterogeneity.
3. Trisomy in man.
4. The 50th anniversary of the discovery of trisomy 21: the past, present, and future of research and treatment of Down syndrome.
5. The trisomy 18 syndrome.

Review of Viral transformation article

The article Viral transformation is classified Cellular Biology WikiProject as a stub class article although it contains more information than many stub articles. The article includes a basic definition, an example, and references to studies but no references. It also contains a genetic engineering figure which is not put into context in the text of the article making it difficult to understand in relation to the other material. This article needs the content expanded and relevant figures added and explained in order to make this a good article. Additionally the content of the article needs to be backed up with verifiable references.

Bibliography:

1. Effect of transforming viruses on molecular mechanisms associated with cancer.
2. Viral transformation for production of personalized type I interferons.
3. Cell Transformation by RNA Viruses: An Overview

Initial Assessment of Articles by CarpeDiem90

Review of the Autosome article

The Autosome article was listed under the Cellular Biology WikiProject page. This article is defined to be bigger than a stub article, since it contains more information than a stub article. In this article, includes a definition of autosome, an example of the autosome, a few in-cite citations, a picture with caption, and a references section. To improve this article, the information needs to be widely expanded with a more descriptive pictures with captions. and should be divided into sections according to the depth of the information. The references section should widely be expanded to make it a good Wikipedia article.

Bibliography:

1. Complete dosage compensation and sex-biased gene expression in the moth Manduca sexta.

2. DNA methylation profiling in X;autosome translocations supports a role for L1 repeats in the spread of X chromosome inactivation.

3. The population genetics of X-autosome synthetic lethals and steriles.

4. Molecular evolution of a Y chromosome to autosome gene duplication in Drosophila.

Review of Gene Cluster Article

The Gene Cluster article was listed under the Cellular Biology WikiProject page. This article is defined to be bigger than a stub article, since it contains more information than a stub article. The article has a basic definition, a few example of gene clusters, and only one reference listed, with a few external links to the article. To make it a good Wikipedia article, the content needs to be expanded with much more depth to the article. The article also needs multiple pictures, with appropriate captions, a wide variety of references as well as external links that relate to the article that can be used for future references.

Bibliography:

1. Gene-specific transcriptional mechanisms at the histone gene cluster revealed by single-cell imaging.

2. The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling

3. Identifying clusters of functionally related genes in genomes.