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===Scope===
This [[WP:WikiProject|project]] aims to improve and organise articles related to [[Molecular biology|molecular]] and [[Cell biology|cell biology]] on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the [[WP:WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology/Participants|list of participants]], drop by our [[WT:MCB|discussion page]] or just look over the [[#How you can help the project|How you can help]] section below.

===Goals===
Collect and organize the wealth of information in [[Biological database|databases]] and academic journals on genomes, proteomes and biological functions to ensure that it is accessible to both researchers and laypeople <br/>
Improve articles to [https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=MCB&quality=FA-Class featured article] status, especially [[WP:Vital_articles#Science_.28192_articles.29|vital articles]], with a particular focus on subjects that are discussed at the primary and secondary school level <br/>
Create a standard system for presenting the information about the proteins and cells that are discussed in Wikipedia articles

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<br/>[[wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject_Molecular_biology|Wikidata project]]
<br/>[[WP:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology/Historical|Historical pages]]
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== How the project can help you ==

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Our&nbsp;[[WT:MCB|discussion&nbsp;page]]&nbsp;is&nbsp;a great hub for asking advice, bringing up ideas, suggesting articles for creation, and requesting reviews <br/>
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We&nbsp;keep&nbsp;a&nbsp;collection&nbsp;of [[/Resources|advice & resources]] pages on the challenges of writing science and molecular biology Wikipedia articles <br/> 
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[[/Statistics|Automatically&nbsp;updated&nbsp;lists]] of articles and significant updates can help you keep on top of important events and find stubs to expand <br/>
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== How you can help the project ==

'''Improve our articles'''<br>
:'''[[/Style guidelines#Infoboxes|Add Infoboxes]]'''   – Help to standardise the data presented on [[:Category:Proteins|protein articles]] <br>
:'''[[/Diagram guide             |Add images   ]]'''   – Diagrams and figures are particularly important to science articles so you can look at our [[WP:WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology/Diagram guide|diagram guide]] for standardising protein and cell figures, or ask for help in creating and updating pictures on the [[WT:MCB|Talk page]] <br>
:'''[[WP:Attribution      |Add references]]'''  – Reliable citations are needed articles to be a [[WP:Attribution|verifiable]] source of information <br>

'''[[WT:MCB|Collaboration]]'''                         – Contribute to a team effort by participating in the collaborations that come up on our talk page to improve relevant articles to [[WP:FA|featured article]] status <br>
'''[[Template:Wikiproject MCB|Label articles of interest]]''' – Add pages to the project by putting the following template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to molecular and cell biology:
:{{nowrap|{{tlx|WikiProject&nbsp;Molecular&nbsp;Biology|class{{=}}|importance{{=}}|<nowiki>MCB=yes</nowiki>|<nowiki>MCB-imp=<!--MCB importance--></nowiki>}}}} <br>
'''Adopt a stub'''    – There are many, many stubby MCB articles that have potential, see [[:Category:Molecular and cellular biology stubs]] or [[:Category:Stub-Class MCB articles]].<br>
'''Categorisation'''                                   – Add protein articles to the [[list of types of proteins]] and place them in the [[:Category:Proteins|proteins category]] or one of its subcategories. <br>
'''Recruitment'''                                      – Assist in '''public relations and outreach''' by recruiting editors interested in molecular and cell to contribute to Wikipedia. <br>
'''Clean up articles''' – There is a list of articles requiring clean up at {{WikiProject cleanup list|Molecular and Cell Biology}}<br />
'''Create new articles'''
:New gene stubs for [[WP:notable]] genes can be created using a tool:
:#Look up the "Gene ID" number on [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene NCBI Gene] for a missing gene entry in ''Homo sapiens''
:#Append that number to <code><nowiki>http://genewiki.sulab.org/wiki/article/create/</nowiki></code> (e.g., [[TAAR9]]: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=134860 134860] – http://genewiki.sulab.org/wiki/article/create/134860/)
:#Navigate to that url, click "Toggle Stub Code", and copy/paste the output into a new Wikipedia article about the gene

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== Participants ==
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There are two lists of project members
:You may <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WP:WikiProject_Molecular_Biology/Molecular_and_Cell_Biology/Participants&veaction=edit add yourself]</span> and your interests to this manually-updated [[WP:WikiProject_Molecular_Biology/Molecular_and_Cell_Biology/Participants|members list]] in alphabetical order.
:There is also an automatically-updated list of [[WP:WikiProject_Directory/Description/WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cell_Biology#Active_WikiProject_Participants|currently active participants]].<br>
You're also welcome to add the userbox <code>{{tl|User MCB}}</code> to your userpage.

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