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I don't think the Structural_domain article adds anything new. In fact some of it is out of context (Designability and disease - new research) and the definition provided is the opinion of the author, and not the definition that has been adopted in structural biology (i.e. Richardson 1981). Even the external links are out of context - domain databases that deal with sequence-domains (recurring mobile sequence modules) - where are the structural domain databases like SCOP and CATH? My suggestion would be to redirect Structural_domain to Protein domains. RAG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.94.6.28 (talk • contribs) 18:25, March 21, 2007

I agree; the very term structural domain is very unhelpful - since it doesn't clearly refer to proteins. This article, however, is quite a good start; what is missing is a comprehensive list of protein-protein interaction domains... (that's a huge job, and may be too much for a particular article)

Gacggt 21:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Definitely, they cover the same subject. A move of the article itself may be needed too though - Domain (protein) would probably be better as the current name is plural. Richard001 03:50, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Done. But this article now needs a lot of work.Biophys 04:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Headers and subheaders added

Because the text could be very hard for some readers, I think it was a very good thing to separate it into shorter paragraphs. Now readers can fast scroll to the section they want to read, instead of haveing to read it all. You might want to check if headers and subheaders really are appropriate to the text. I've might have done mistakes. Mortsggah 16:01, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

The article is a good length and very well referenced. It just needs a little layout work to improve readability (for example the lead section is fairly long) and the referencing needs to be converted to inline throughout. The merge from the other article is the only other issue. Richard001 03:54, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Someone invested a lot of effort here, but he/she wrote a lot of things that belong to other articles: primary->secondary->tertiary structure, description of protein folding and some other things. They should be removed or modified.Biophys 04:19, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Spamming Wikipedia

Biologicalworld.com has spammed wikipedia like no tomorrow. He is a site of only a few pages and a LOT of adsense. Not much information is given except for "protocols" which are not referenced, and cannot be trusted from a site of that quality.

check: Links from Wikipedia

The following have been cleaned up:

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_electrophoresis
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology_(biology)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_enzyme
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_dish
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_domain
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypsin
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligonucleotide
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_electron_microscope
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar_plate
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_phosphate
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfide_bond
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation_(biochemistry)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_ligase
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_type
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_culture
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_electron_microscopy
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter_gene
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_blot
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_engineering
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_end/blunt_end
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_domain
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coomassie
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_state
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Hamster_Ovary_cell
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidase

and many more Sciencetalks (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 02:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was 'move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:33, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Protein domains vs Protein domain

Shouldn't this article be located at the non-plural Protein domain? The introductory paragraph even says "protein domain" and not "protein domains"... I'll be bold and move this. Jobjörn (talk) 09:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

I couldn't move it, so I'm requesting a move. (See also the above section.) Jobjörn (talk) 09:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.