User:Mad Price Ball
Mad Price Ball
Personal web page: http://www.madpriceball.net/
My background: I'm co-founder of Open Humans. I've got experience in free culture / open source, personal data sharing, participant-engaged research, genomics and health research. I'm also a former member of George Church's lab.
Science myths: /Science_myths
Work area: /Draft
Articles I've worked on
Some articles I've done major rewriting on:
- {{icon|FA}} Genetics - (5/27/07) at the moment the page is almost entirely content I added
:([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genetics&oldid=115456665 before] - what the page was like before I started)
:*3/13/08 - Good Article
:*3/25/08 - Featured Article
- Sex - (3/31/08) complete rewrite [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex&diff=202411915&oldid=201892490]
- DNA replication - (3/5/08) complete rewrite [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DNA_replication&diff=196189557&oldid=196112854]
- 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 [[WP:STUPID|added pictures of cats]] to =
Article access statistics
Using [http://stats.grok.se/en/], average number of times accessed per day in 2008/02:
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!article | access/day |
| 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!
Image:DNA_chemical_structure.svg|The chemical structure of DNA
Image:Griffith_experiment.svg|Griffith's experiment illustration
Image:PCR.svg|illustration of four PCR cycles
Image:Punnett_square_mendel_flowers.svg|A Punnett square, cross between pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.
Image:Genetic_code.svg|An image of the genetic code, DNA->RNA->protein
Image:Ecoli_colonies.png|K12 E coli colonies on a plate of agar.
Image:Luria-delbruck_diagram.svg|Diagram illustrating the Luria-Delbrück experiment, suggested by ragesoss.
Image:PCR_tubes.png|Strip of eight PCR tubes with 100μl reactions.
Image:Eukaryote_tree.svg|Eukaryotic phylogenetic tree.
Image:Simplified_tree.png|Another tree I tried making, currently used in Genetics article
Image:Ligation.svg|Sticky-ended DNA ligation
Image:Blunt_ligation.svg|Blunt-ended DNA ligation
Image:Vegan_food_pyramid.svg|Vegan food pyramid, based on ADA recommendations
Image:DNA_replication_split.svg|DNA replication fork with 5'->3' synthesis shown
Image:DNA_polymerase.svg|DNA polymerase extending & proofreading diagram
Image:Rolling_circle.svg|Rolling circle replication
Image:ABC_flower_development.svg|ABC model of flower development