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18 Mar 2026 – Light-dependent reactions (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
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
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

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08 Apr 2026 – Draft:Mirko Bischofberger (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Quaenuncabibis (t · c)
08 Apr 2026 – Draft:Compact Sequencing (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Charonac (t · c)
26 Mar 2026 – Draft:Neuronostatin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Researcher2016 (t · c)
20 Feb 2026 – Draft:TimeVault (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Benjamed (t · c)

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About

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WikiProject Molecular Biology Taskforces

Projects and Partnerships

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Wikimedia

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

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

Societies

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

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

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.

Metrics

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MCB

MCB articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	8	4	3	5			20
FL		1					1
GA	17	17	15	13			62
B	53	217	282	366	1	8	927
C	67	254	638	1,232		61	2,252
Start	20	277	891	5,984		73	7,245
Stub		2	204	17,475	1	95	17,777
List	9	7	35	63	241	20	375
Category					891		891
Disambig					47		47
File					37		37
Project					8		8
Redirect	3	22	85	1,003	906		2,019
Template					307		307
Assessed	177	801	2,153	26,141	2,439	257	31,968
Unassessed			5	16	2	107	130
Total	177	801	2,158	26,157	2,441	364	32,098
WikiWork factors (?)	ω = 154,806	Ω = 5.47

Genetics

Genetics articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	4	1	1	1			7
FL		1					1
FM					15		15
GA	8	8	14	23			53
B	26	68	104	135		13	346
C	23	110	323	617		109	1,182
Start	3	60	349	1,300		279	1,991
Stub	1	2	57	1,498		159	1,717
List	10	7	8	37	5	1	68
Category					455		455
Disambig					4		4
File					27		27
Project					38		38
Redirect	3	3	17	78	142		243
Template					66		66
NA					1		1
Other					1		1
Assessed	78	260	873	3,689	754	561	6,215
Unassessed				2		79	81
Total	78	260	873	3,691	754	640	6,296
WikiWork factors (?)	ω = 26,129	Ω = 4.93

Computational Biology

Computational Biology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1	2	4	5			12
B	10	34	32	52		3	131
C	9	40	65	141		10	265
Start	1	38	150	502		10	701
Stub			25	359		9	393
List		15	17	21			53
Category					34		34
Project					59		59
Redirect		1	9	31	19		60
Template					7		7
Other			1				1
Assessed	21	130	303	1,111	119	32	1,716
Total	21	130	303	1,111	119	32	1,716
WikiWork factors (?)	ω = 7,346	Ω = 4.89

Gene Wiki

More information Gene Wiki articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Gene Wiki articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
B		1	53		1	55
C		9	47		4	60
Start		2	84		4	90
Stub			1,548		1	1,549
List	9					9
Category				12		12
Project				3		3
Redirect			86	9		95
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 = 10,149			Ω = 5.79

More information How the rating scale works ...

How the rating scale works

Article classification

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).

Resources

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Related WikiProjects

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WikiProject Molecular Biology is one of the main groups within WikiProject Biology and covers sub-cellular biology. However, it inevitably has plenty of overlap with wither Biology projects as well as several other Science projects.

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