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4th ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium: a virtual and inclusive experience during COVID-19 times

Since 2014, the ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium (LA-SCS) serves as the main biannual activity where students from all levels, postdocs and early researchers from the entire Latin American region can gather to discuss recent advances in the fields of bioinformatics and computational bio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Castillo-Vilcahuaman, Camila, Valdivia, Catalina, Osorio-Mogollón, Cleidy, Silva-Andrade, Claudia, Puche, Rafael, Ayala-Ruano, Sebastián, Cuesta-Astroz, Yesid, Parra, R. Gonzalo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7739094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33363714
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.28330.1
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Sumario:Since 2014, the ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium (LA-SCS) serves as the main biannual activity where students from all levels, postdocs and early researchers from the entire Latin American region can gather to discuss recent advances in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. This time we faced a major unexpected obstacle, a worldwide pandemic that has completely disrupted human activities at a planetary scale. Countless conferences have been either canceled, reprogrammed for the next year or moved to a virtual format. However, thanks to an important strengthening of the Latin American student network and the creation of several new RSGs in the continent, we were able to get together a fearless team that aimed to overcome the pandemic obstacles and still organise the 4th LA-SCS. Here we summarize our experiences in our first virtual symposium.