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:

• Genetics - (5/27/07) at the moment the page is almost entirely content I added

(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 [1]
• DNA replication - (3/5/08) complete rewrite [2]
• 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:

• Domatia

List of articles I have added pictures of cats to

• Genetics
• X chromosome inactivation
• Cat

Article access statistics

Using [3], average number of times accessed per day in 2008/02:

Images I've made

Some photos and SVG images I made with Inkscape... feel free to suggest other SVG images I could make!

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  The chemical structure of DNA
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  Griffith's experiment illustration
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  illustration of four PCR cycles
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  A Punnett square, cross between pea plants heterozygous for purple (B) and white (b) blossoms.
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  An image of the genetic code, DNA->RNA->protein
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  K12 E coli colonies on a plate of agar.
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  Diagram illustrating the Luria-Delbrück experiment, suggested by ragesoss.
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  Strip of eight PCR tubes with 100μl reactions.
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  Eukaryotic phylogenetic tree.
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  Another tree I tried making, currently used in Genetics article
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  Sticky-ended DNA ligation
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  Blunt-ended DNA ligation
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  Vegan food pyramid, based on ADA recommendations
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  DNA replication fork with 5'->3' synthesis shown
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  DNA polymerase extending & proofreading diagram
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  Rolling circle replication
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  ABC model of flower development