User:Mad Price Ball
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Madeleine Price Ball
Personal web page: http://mad.printf.net
Blog: http://www.madprime.org
My background: I'm a graduate student in George Church's lab, which specializes in genomics and biotechnology.
Work area: /Draft
Opinions
- ABC news scrutinizes the newsworthiness of individual studies - an encyclopedia should be at least this careful. Madeleine 21:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Articles I've worked on
Some articles I've done major rewriting on:
- Genetics - (5/27/07) at the moment the page is almost entirely content I added
- (before - what the page was like before I started)
- DNA replication - (3/5/08) complete rewrite [1]
- Genetic recombination
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Quantification of nucleic acids
- DNA melting - merged two articles, later added info on experimental applications of DNA melting
- Epigenetics
Articles I made:
- PCR optimization - I made this because I wanted to move optimization trivia away from the main PCR article
- Stop codon - Made this page to cover material about amber & ochre mutations and suppressors
- Acacia drepanolobium - The whistling thorn acacia, created the article after reading a cover-story article about it and symbiotic ants in Science.
- Double-flowered - the double flower phenotype, earliest documented floral mutation and popular in many cultivated flowers
Stubs I made:
List of articles I have added pictures of cats to
Article access statistics
Using [2], average number of times accessed per day in 2008/02:
article | access/day |
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Genetics | 2,555 |
Polymerase chain reaction | 2,545 |
DNA replication | 1,997 |
DNA sequencing | 912 |
Epigenetics | 908 |
Genetic recombination | 466 |
Stop codon | 357 |
Human genetics | 262 |
Arabidopsis thaliana | 226 |
DNA melting | 105 |
History of genetics | 97 |
Acacia drepanolobium | 6 |
Domatia | 4 |
Images I've made
Some photos and SVG images I made with Inkscape... feel free to suggest other SVG images I could make!
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The chemical structure of DNA
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Griffith's experiment illustration
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illustration of four PCR cycles
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A Punnett square, cross between pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.
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An image of the genetic code, DNA->RNA->protein
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K12 E coli colonies on a plate of agar.
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Diagram illustrating the Luria-Delbrück experiment, suggested by ragesoss.
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Strip of eight PCR tubes with 100μl reactions.
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Eukaryotic phylogenetic tree.
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Another tree I tried making, currently used in Genetics article
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Sticky-ended DNA ligation
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Blunt-ended DNA ligation
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Vegan food pyramid, based on ADA recommendations
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DNA replication fork with 5'->3' synthesis shown
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DNA polymerase extending & proofreading diagram
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Rolling circle replication
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ABC model of flower development