user540: I think it would be helpful to have forward-genetics and reverse-genetics tags.

These are well-known concepts used informatively by researchers.
They are more fine-grained than genetics alone.
They could be useful to distinguish the "basic" questions about fundamentals of genetics (eg. Punett squares and Mendelian laws) from more technical questions explicitly dealing with specific approaches (mutation screens and GWAS).
To a person who knows what these terms mean (which should be most biologists) they effectively, precisely and concisely convey what the question is about.

For instance, I would have tagged the question I asked recently with forward-genetics (but I lack the rep needed to create new tags).

user3624: Reasonable suggestion and I have now added the tag to your question. Feel free to suggest a tag wiki entry for it: biology.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/965
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Do you have any suggestions for questions where reverse-genetics is suitable? I don't think that tags can be created without being attached to a question.

540: <p>I think it would be helpful to have <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-genetics" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;forward-genetics&#39;" rel="tag">forward-genetics</a> and <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reverse-genetics" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;reverse-genetics&#39;" rel="tag">reverse-genetics</a> tags.</p>

<ol>
<li>These are well-known concepts used informatively by researchers.</li>
<li>They are more fine-grained than <code>genetics</code> alone.</li>
<li>They could be useful to distinguish the "basic" questions about fundamentals of genetics (eg. Punett squares and Mendelian laws) from more technical questions explicitly dealing with specific approaches (mutation screens and GWAS).</li>
<li>To a person who knows what these terms mean (which should be most biologists) they effectively, precisely and concisely convey what the question is about.</li>
</ol>

<p>For instance, I would have tagged <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/16289/how-can-a-yac-be-screened-against-a-cdna-library-and-a-cosmid-library-of-genomic">the question I asked recently</a> with <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/forward-genetics" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;forward-genetics&#39;" rel="tag">forward-genetics</a> (but I lack the rep needed to create new tags).</p>
 3624: <p>Reasonable suggestion and I have now added the tag to your question. Feel free to suggest a tag wiki entry for it: <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/965">biology.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/965
</a>.</p>

<p>Do you have any suggestions for questions where <a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reverse-genetics" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;reverse-genetics&#39;" rel="tag">reverse-genetics</a> is suitable? I don't think that tags can be created without being attached to a question.</p>
