PDB releases Molecule of the Month images under open licenses[edit]

In 2014, WikiProject Biophysics persuaded David Goodsell and the RCSB Protein DataBank to assign a CC-BY-3.0 (now CC-BY-4.0) open license to his iconic shaded space-fill drawings of molecules in his 'Molecule of the Month' feature on the RCSB PDB web site (>200 of them so far). In addition, a minority of the molecular landscapes have been released under open licenses. There are now categories for "Molecule of the Month" and "Molecular Landscapes" on Wikimedia Commons for the images uploaded so far - please help us add more!

Biophysical Society Wiki editing Contest[edit]

From 2012 to 2014, the Biophysical Society sponsored contests for the most improved biophysics-related articles, image collections, or other contributions to Wikipedia or Commons, or other relevant progress. The Biophysics wiki-edit contest page has more details, including the winners and what they did. Up to six winners received $100, a barnstar on their talk page, and free membership and registration to the following year's Biophysical Society meeting. All entrants got a neat button to wear. There is not a current contest.

Media coverage[edit]

In 2015, Ben Lillie wrote in the Atlantic Monthly about one of our WikiProject Biophysics Good Articles, which happens to be a biography of Frederic Richards, his grandfather:

• Lillie, Ben (2014-11-18). "What Wikipedia Taught Me About My Grandfather". The Atlantic.

In 2013, WikiProject members were interviewed in The Signpost:

• WikiProject report. The Signpost.

A list of Biophysics taskforce members (along with some of their interests) is maintained under the WikiProject Molecular Biology page. To join, simply add yourself at that page and indicate your interests.

• Dcrjsr (talk · contribs) (Interests: structural biology & structural bioinformatics, adding relevant images to Commons [1], and helping organize editing efforts in this area.) 17:21, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• jeremyblock (talk · contribs) (Interests: history of the fields, the impacts on broader society of biophysics, on structural biology, and on structural bioinformatics. I'm interested in helping to expand and cross-link the efforts to other parts of Wikipedia.) 20:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Antony-22 (talk · contribs) (I work in the DNA nanotechnology/synthetic biology/systems biology world, and can also contribute more generally.) 19:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) (I am interested in magnetoception.) 02:29, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Shanata (talk · contribs) (Interests: ion channels/electrophysiology, structure-function studies, small molecule ligands) 19:54, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Daniel Mietchen (talk · contribs) (General interest in linking biophysics to other areas; special interest in Magnetic Resonance Microscopy) 14:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keilana (talk · contribs) (Interests: not sure yet, but I'm studying to be a biophysicist so I'm sure I'll figure that out eventually.) 05:23, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Mark viking (talk · contribs) (Interests: DNA and protein dynamics, evolution and genetics, complex systems approaches to molecular biology) 04:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• showjumpersam (talk · contribs) (Interests: chemical biology, lipid phase behaviour and role in vivo) 06:56, 25 January 2016 (CET), Chemical biology
• dbsseven (talk · contribs) (Interests: Ion channels, secondary membrane transporters)
• DJW56 (talk · contribs) (Interests: Membranes, exocytosis) 16:38, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Biochemlife (talk · contribs) (Interests: macromolecular crystallography, biochemistry, science communication)
• Phacelias (talk · contribs) (Interests: Biophysics, macromolecules, information and entropy, evolution) 11:23, 4 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Rubbish computer (talk · contribs) 14:18, 10 January 2022

Featured articles[edit]

DNA nanotechnology
Enzyme kinetics
X-ray crystallography

Good articles[edit]

New articles[edit]

Please feel free to list new Biophysics-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters of prose, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• Molecular demon Feb. 4, 2019
• List of biophysically important macromolecular crystal structures - DYK Feb. 28, 2014
• Structure validation
• King-Wai Yau
• Karolin Luger
• Manuel Morales
• Anti-thrombin aptamers

• Lists of biophysics articles include...
  • Index of biophysics articles
  • List of biophysicists
  • Outline of biophysics

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Portals[edit]

Tools[edit]

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.