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This course is separated into two sections, coordination chemistry theory and bioinorganic chemistry. Description for the bioinorganic section: Survey of metalloenzymes highlighting their biological occurrence and function, structure-function relationships, and current chemistry research with biomimetic complexes; also biological metal ion specificity (chaperoning) and introduction to specialized inorganic analysis techniques (esr, EXAFS, magnetochem etc) used to study metalloenzymes. Metalloenzyme examples including (as time permits): Photosystem II, biological iron transport and storage, haemoglobin, nitrogenase, cytochrome P450, high potential iron proteins (HPIP), vitamin B12, CO2 fixation in methanogens and cofactor F430, superoxide dismutase, CO dehydrogenase, blue copper proteins.
Google searches for scientific information routinely return Wikipedia articles in the top five search results, and more and more scientists are recognizing the worthiness of Wikipedia content. As a chemist, I have continually been impressed with the accuracy, quality and range of Wikipedia scientific content, and now use it so much that I have recently made a donation out of appreciation. Every chemistry or physics article I have read so far has been reasonably or very well written and accurate, not only content for which I already have the relevant expertise to pass judgement, but also for content that is new to me which I was later able to verify, for example by reading the primary references listed in the Wikipedia article.
Although Wikipedia does not use the explicit expert peer-review process employed by reputable scientific journals, it does have a reasonably effective mechanism to ensure quality and accuracy due to the tireless efforts from the community of many thousands of volunteer editors that not only contribute content but also assess the quality of articles and discuss the best ways to improve them, and from the Wiki Education Foundation staff that assist new editors.
The range of topics covered is impressive, making Wikipedia a preferred resource. While there are other high quality online chemistry information resources, they are either highly specialized or only have a relatively small number of topics/articles, because a small group of chemists at a particular institution can not contribute anywhere near as much content and range of topics as Wikipedia with its many thousands of editors contributing from all over the world. Furthermore, Wikipedia can be relied on to always be there for you, whereas numerous online chemistry information resources that I relied on in the past would at some point disappear off the internet as the staff maintaining the resource either moved on or lost funding that was supporting the resource.
Learning Outcomes
“With a traditional assignment, your only audience is often your professor, or at most your professor and your classmates. I really liked the fact that this assignment gave me an opportunity to write for a broader audience and make a valuable contribution to a resource that I often use myself.” — Joseph Lapka, San Francisco State University
“Writing for Wikipedia has engaged my students like nothing else. They are some of the most pedagogically powerful assignments I’ve incorporated into my classes.” — Adeline Koh, instructor, Stockton University
“Students do use Wikipedia, and they need to understand what it is and how to trace back to the [cited] sources. It is a valuable tool that is dismissed by too many people.” Faculty participant
Online video – History of Wikipedia
Wiki Education Foundation organization
Outline (see timeline below for detailed instructions and resources)
Assistance from the Wiki Education Foundation Staff [1]
Ian, an on-staff content expert from the Wiki Education Foundation, will follow the students work throughout the term and provide them with feedback as they edit. He is signed up on our course page as Ian (Wiki Ed).
Choose one or more metalloenzyme subtopics, or general bio-inorganic topic as per the examples below, for which the Wikipedia article has either:
you can choose any metalloenzyme, metalloprotein or bioinorganic topic, even if it is already discussed in the lecture notes.
note: the “Suggested Topics” section below lists specific topics for which the Wikipedia articles are in need of new (subtopic) contributions.
BEFORE BEGINNING: obtain approval from your instructor regarding:
Metalloenzyme subtopics
General Bioinorganic topics (ie. applicable to multiple metalloenzymes)
focus on a specific topic that is fundamental to multiple metalloenzymes and has sufficient theoretical detail (ie. not just an introductory level survey of examples)
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editing / referencing / diagrams equivalencies (to original text contributions)
Bioinorganic Chemistry (definition and overview)
Iron Transport
Metal Chaperones
Inorganic Medicinal Chemistry
Hydrolase and Lyase Enzymes
Iron sulfur clusters:
Electron Transfer Proteins
Nitrogenase:
methanogens
Handout (for interest's sake): History of Wikipedia
Resources: Online Training for Students
User Page: Log in to your account and it will say “to start a page called User:XXXX, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it.”
Sandboxes: about Sandboxes the sandbox is your own page (ie. not a live article) where you can practice editing and enter your intended contributions, then when you are ready, your edits can be moved from your sandbox to the main (live) article page. Although other users can view and edit your sandbox, it is considered a serious violation of Wikipedia's policy that users must not edit other users sandboxes (editing someone else's sandbox can result in a suspension or permanent block on your account)
“To start a page called User:XXXX/sandbox, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it.”
Editing and Markup: About Editing Wikipedia (a downloadable pdf file that is also posted to the BB Ass2 folder)
How to Upload images and diagrams:
This Course
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Wikipedia Resources
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![]() | This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
This course is separated into two sections, coordination chemistry theory and bioinorganic chemistry. Description for the bioinorganic section: Survey of metalloenzymes highlighting their biological occurrence and function, structure-function relationships, and current chemistry research with biomimetic complexes; also biological metal ion specificity (chaperoning) and introduction to specialized inorganic analysis techniques (esr, EXAFS, magnetochem etc) used to study metalloenzymes. Metalloenzyme examples including (as time permits): Photosystem II, biological iron transport and storage, haemoglobin, nitrogenase, cytochrome P450, high potential iron proteins (HPIP), vitamin B12, CO2 fixation in methanogens and cofactor F430, superoxide dismutase, CO dehydrogenase, blue copper proteins.
Google searches for scientific information routinely return Wikipedia articles in the top five search results, and more and more scientists are recognizing the worthiness of Wikipedia content. As a chemist, I have continually been impressed with the accuracy, quality and range of Wikipedia scientific content, and now use it so much that I have recently made a donation out of appreciation. Every chemistry or physics article I have read so far has been reasonably or very well written and accurate, not only content for which I already have the relevant expertise to pass judgement, but also for content that is new to me which I was later able to verify, for example by reading the primary references listed in the Wikipedia article.
Although Wikipedia does not use the explicit expert peer-review process employed by reputable scientific journals, it does have a reasonably effective mechanism to ensure quality and accuracy due to the tireless efforts from the community of many thousands of volunteer editors that not only contribute content but also assess the quality of articles and discuss the best ways to improve them, and from the Wiki Education Foundation staff that assist new editors.
The range of topics covered is impressive, making Wikipedia a preferred resource. While there are other high quality online chemistry information resources, they are either highly specialized or only have a relatively small number of topics/articles, because a small group of chemists at a particular institution can not contribute anywhere near as much content and range of topics as Wikipedia with its many thousands of editors contributing from all over the world. Furthermore, Wikipedia can be relied on to always be there for you, whereas numerous online chemistry information resources that I relied on in the past would at some point disappear off the internet as the staff maintaining the resource either moved on or lost funding that was supporting the resource.
Learning Outcomes
“With a traditional assignment, your only audience is often your professor, or at most your professor and your classmates. I really liked the fact that this assignment gave me an opportunity to write for a broader audience and make a valuable contribution to a resource that I often use myself.” — Joseph Lapka, San Francisco State University
“Writing for Wikipedia has engaged my students like nothing else. They are some of the most pedagogically powerful assignments I’ve incorporated into my classes.” — Adeline Koh, instructor, Stockton University
“Students do use Wikipedia, and they need to understand what it is and how to trace back to the [cited] sources. It is a valuable tool that is dismissed by too many people.” Faculty participant
Online video – History of Wikipedia
Wiki Education Foundation organization
Outline (see timeline below for detailed instructions and resources)
Assistance from the Wiki Education Foundation Staff [1]
Ian, an on-staff content expert from the Wiki Education Foundation, will follow the students work throughout the term and provide them with feedback as they edit. He is signed up on our course page as Ian (Wiki Ed).
Choose one or more metalloenzyme subtopics, or general bio-inorganic topic as per the examples below, for which the Wikipedia article has either:
you can choose any metalloenzyme, metalloprotein or bioinorganic topic, even if it is already discussed in the lecture notes.
note: the “Suggested Topics” section below lists specific topics for which the Wikipedia articles are in need of new (subtopic) contributions.
BEFORE BEGINNING: obtain approval from your instructor regarding:
Metalloenzyme subtopics
General Bioinorganic topics (ie. applicable to multiple metalloenzymes)
focus on a specific topic that is fundamental to multiple metalloenzymes and has sufficient theoretical detail (ie. not just an introductory level survey of examples)
.....................................................
editing / referencing / diagrams equivalencies (to original text contributions)
Bioinorganic Chemistry (definition and overview)
Iron Transport
Metal Chaperones
Inorganic Medicinal Chemistry
Hydrolase and Lyase Enzymes
Iron sulfur clusters:
Electron Transfer Proteins
Nitrogenase:
methanogens
Handout (for interest's sake): History of Wikipedia
Resources: Online Training for Students
User Page: Log in to your account and it will say “to start a page called User:XXXX, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it.”
Sandboxes: about Sandboxes the sandbox is your own page (ie. not a live article) where you can practice editing and enter your intended contributions, then when you are ready, your edits can be moved from your sandbox to the main (live) article page. Although other users can view and edit your sandbox, it is considered a serious violation of Wikipedia's policy that users must not edit other users sandboxes (editing someone else's sandbox can result in a suspension or permanent block on your account)
“To start a page called User:XXXX/sandbox, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it.”
Editing and Markup: About Editing Wikipedia (a downloadable pdf file that is also posted to the BB Ass2 folder)
How to Upload images and diagrams: