Ten Simple Rules for Organizing an Unconference

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Budd, Aidan ^a   Dinkel, Holger ^a   Corpas, Manuel ^b   Fuller, Jonathan C ^c   Rubinat, Laura ^a,d   Devos, Damien P ^e   Khoueiry, Pierre H ^a   Förstner, Konrad U ^f   Georgatos, Fotis ^g   Rowland, Francis ^h   Sharan, Malvika ^f   Binder, Janos X ^a,g   Grace, Tom ⁱ   Traphagen, Karyn ^j   Gristwood, Adam ^a   Wood, Natasha T ^k  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^c HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^h EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

ⁱ Typeface Lettering Design   (Germany)

^j ScienceOnline   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIMPLE++; UNCONFERENCES;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMMUNITY; CONSENSUS; EDITORIAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING STYLE; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION; PLANNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDIZATION; TRUST; BIOLOGY; CROWDSOURCING; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; CROWDSOURCING; HUMANS;

EID: 84922253061     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003905     Document Type: Editorial

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