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Talk:Synthetic biological circuit

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  History of Synthetic Cellular Circuit -Matt
  see jacob monod citation very important they seem like visionaries
        Interest – Why people care
        Techniques and Methods
        Examples - Mike
        Goals and Aims – challenges are included
             Minimal Genomes
             Multicellular ecosystems as circuits  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfconway (talk • contribs) 19:11, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply] 

Multiple citations: when we get around to cleaning this up see the following page for how to cite the same article more than once. (We cite Gardner et al 7 times) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Referencing_for_beginners#Same_reference_used_more_than_once --Mfconway (talk) 06:52, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article contains 500 words instead of 1000. It has to be proofread for grammar and awkward sentence structure. As a result,It is hard to understand the main message.

Some points that might help: -You can provide a background on biological circuits and how mathematical models are used to understand why the system is designed in this way. The lac operon that was presented in class is a good example. Synthetic biological circuit design is a representation of an alternative biological circuit and is used to analyze the optimal circuit design. Examples of oscillators and counters from the class handout are good explanations — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.114.136 (talk) 03:03, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of having an introduction, just place that part above the contents section. Keep in mind the audience of Wikipedia articles when choosing some of your vocabulary. Even though you can link certain terms through Wikipedia, you may want to provide a brief explanation of what things like promoters are just to make it flow more important. By doing this you also go into more detail to why these things are important and relevant to the reader, especially with the kind of audience Wikipedia articles get. I see that in your discussion part you plan to include a techniques and methods section. This would be helpful in describing how synthetic biological circuits work. You may want to explain what you mean by "plug and play" in the interest and goals section. The Stable Isotope Group Ench468MF11 (talk) 21:48, 30 November 2011 (UTC)Ench468MF11[reply]

Instructor review This article reads well, and has informative and attractive figures. But it needs the following improvements:

You need to cite! There is no citation in the article lead and most of the History section. Citations are especially needed for things that look like opinions and at the end of a paragraph.

You should expand abbreviations at first mention unless they are well-known terms such as DNA.

There is no need to write so much on the lac operon -- describe it very briefly to get the message across and link to its own article.

Good job thus far -- if you are interested, you can move toward a featured article or at least a featured picture (beyond this course). This article has a lot to attract casual science readers.

UM BIOE120 Instructor (talk) 06:12, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]