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Lessons from a ten-year-long journey: building a student-driven computational biology society across Turkey

The Regional Student Group Turkey (RSG-Turkey) is officially associated with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council (SC). At the RSG-Turkey, we aim to contribute to the early-career researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics fields by providing opport...

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Autores principales: Kaya, Yasin, Karakulak, Tülay, Can Saylan, Cemil, Gür, E. Ravza, Tatlıdil, Engin, Güleşen, Sevilay, Betül Dinçaslan, Fatma, Dönertaş, Handan Melike
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8792875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35136586
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.107886.1
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author Kaya, Yasin
Karakulak, Tülay
Can Saylan, Cemil
Gür, E. Ravza
Tatlıdil, Engin
Güleşen, Sevilay
Betül Dinçaslan, Fatma
Dönertaş, Handan Melike
author_facet Kaya, Yasin
Karakulak, Tülay
Can Saylan, Cemil
Gür, E. Ravza
Tatlıdil, Engin
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description The Regional Student Group Turkey (RSG-Turkey) is officially associated with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council (SC). At the RSG-Turkey, we aim to contribute to the early-career researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics fields by providing opportunities for improving their academic and technical skills in the field. Over the last ten years, we have built a well-known student-driven academic society in Turkey that organizes numerous events every year and continues to grow with over 650 current members. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of RSG-Turkey, in this communication, we share our experiences, five main lessons we learned, and the steps to establish a long-standing academic community: having a clear mission, building a robust structure, effective communication, turning challenges into opportunities, and building collaborations. We believe that our experiences can help students and academics establish long-standing communities in fast-developing areas like bioinformatics.
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spelling pubmed-87928752022-02-07 Lessons from a ten-year-long journey: building a student-driven computational biology society across Turkey Kaya, Yasin Karakulak, Tülay Can Saylan, Cemil Gür, E. Ravza Tatlıdil, Engin Güleşen, Sevilay Betül Dinçaslan, Fatma Dönertaş, Handan Melike F1000Res Editorial The Regional Student Group Turkey (RSG-Turkey) is officially associated with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council (SC). At the RSG-Turkey, we aim to contribute to the early-career researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics fields by providing opportunities for improving their academic and technical skills in the field. Over the last ten years, we have built a well-known student-driven academic society in Turkey that organizes numerous events every year and continues to grow with over 650 current members. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of RSG-Turkey, in this communication, we share our experiences, five main lessons we learned, and the steps to establish a long-standing academic community: having a clear mission, building a robust structure, effective communication, turning challenges into opportunities, and building collaborations. We believe that our experiences can help students and academics establish long-standing communities in fast-developing areas like bioinformatics. F1000 Research Limited 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8792875/ /pubmed/35136586 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.107886.1 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Kaya Y et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dönertaş, Handan Melike
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8792875/
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