csoneson
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4 years ago 👋 @federicomarini - your BioC2020 BoF session has been scheduled for Thu, July 30, 12-12:55pm EDT. A Zoom meeting has been created and will be accessible from within the conference platform (please make sure that you are registered for the conference in order to get access to the platform). There will also be a person from the organization team present during your session to help in case of any technical issues. Don't hesitate to let us know if you have questions or need additional support for your BoF. Thanks for contributing to the conference!
federicomarini
Hi there,
I'm happy to propose a BOF topic in response to the call you opened - https://support.bioconductor.org/p/129518/
Ten simple rules for thriving in bioinformatics research
Input/topic: In the spirit of an open discussion, we would like to gather experiences and suggestions about how it is possible as bioinformaticians/computational biologists to develop software as well our own career in the Life Sciences, with a specific focus in the fields of academia, consulting, and research service.
How can we for example improve the opportunities for recognition of our work (e.g. by being able to publish workflows and software), and encourage evaluation based on additional metrics than the “traditional” papers and citations. Or, touching another possible pain point, how can we acquire funding being mostly in the software/method development?
We started a brainstorming session in one of the open Thematic Lounge sessions during e-Rum2020 and wanted to continue the discussion in a more targeted group.
Ideally, this could develop into a “response” to the “Ten simple rules for providing effective bioinformatics research support”, recently posted on Plos Computational Biology https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007531 - there the focus was on how to build up efficient ways to provide research support, while we would like to put a spotlight on the research aspects.
Output: While the conversation will be kept in a very open format to enable the participation for attendees coming from diverse backgrounds and academic levels, we would like to document and structure the output of this BoF pretty much as a “Ten Simple Rules” collaborative manuscript.
If you would like to show your interest with a virtual raise of hands, please do so by reacting or replying to this issue!
Federico (@federicomarini), Charlotte (@csoneson ), Davide (@drisso)