Ten simple rules for getting help from online scientific communities

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Dall'Olio, Giovanni M ^a   Marino, Jacopo ^b   Schubert, Michael ^c   Keys, Kevin L ^a   Stefan, Melanie I ^d   Gillespie, Colin S ^e   Poulain, Pierre ^f,g,h   Shameer, Khader ^i,j   Sugar, Robert ^c   Invergo, Brandon M ^a   Jensen, Lars J ^k   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a   Laayouni, Hafid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f INSERM   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^h INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

ⁱ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^j TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SIMPLE++;

COMMUNITY; EDITORIAL; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIST; BIOLOGY; COOPERATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

EID: 80053450809     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002202     Document Type: Editorial

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