Talk:Amplicon

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What about amplicons as chromosomal regions that are amplified (DNA copy-number > 2n)?

Upcoming updates to this article

Hello! As part of an online Molecular Biology class through Johns Hopkins University we ((Dechava1), (Dusty40) and (Jedwar48)) will be updating this article. Please feel free to leave us comments here as we attempt to improve this article by adding content, links and references. Though we are first-time wikipedians we hope that by the end of our project this article will adequately communicate what an amplicon is and how it arises, among other things. Our assignment will conclude on December 15, 2012.

Thanks! Dechava1 (talk) 22:53, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Final week mini-review

Hi, guys. Here's a final-week mini-review of your page. It is just a few random notes, that I jotted down while skimming the page, and is not intended as a comprehensive review.

• In the introduction, "amplification" links to a disambiguation page. You probably want to change it to link to the target for Amplification_(molecular_biology), which is Gene_duplication#Gene_duplication_as_amplification. Tag it like this: [[Gene_duplication#Gene_duplication_as_amplification|amplification]], which results in this: amplification.
• I don't think the figure of the PCR machine adds any value to this article.
• The section "Amplicon structure" is a bit weak. For example, I'm not even sure what this sentence means, "During artificial amplification, amplicon length is dictated by the experimental goals". You should be able to elaborate quite a bit on this section, I would think.
• In general, Db4an's review comments here are good, but it looks like many of his suggestions haven't been taken.
• In particular, I liked his idea to use Viral vector as a model for how your article should look, and I still think you could do a lot to beef up your article, and try to copy some of the ideas and structure from that one.
• You could add some more figures. Please see some suggestions here, under "Figures and Images".

Klortho (talk) 00:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)