Welcome to Bioinformatics forum registration page.
[Welcome]
This forum is dedicated to a very specific set of topics: computer programming, biology and tools in the field of bioinformatics. It is divided into discussion topics.
Things you will find on this forum:
- Bioinformatics related course discussions (Rosalind, Coursera, edX, etc.).
- Ability to openly collaborate with other people on your projects.
- Share and discuss any related topics and research.
- Get help with bioinformatics (programming, biology) related problems, and get a chance to help others and build an amazing community.
For the time being, this forum is invite-only as it is hosted and run by one person. The amount of spam, bots and people who just need to dump their college work onto others is too high to deal with. This might change in the future when community grows, and we get good moderators.
[Rules]
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Please be nice to all the members as we are trying to build a professional and supportive community of like-minded people. Respect the time and kindness of others (see point 3).
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Do a lot of research and try really hard to solve a problem before you ask others for help.
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When asking for help, please provide as much information as you can, and tell us what you have already tried. Don’t just copy code from the internet or your university/college assignment, without any understanding, and ask people to spend many hours solving it for you.
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Try first, ask later approach: This is a delicate balancing act. Nothing will teach you better than just getting hold of some data or code and just giving it a go. Try. Sit and read and try as hard as you can to solve whatever problems you encounter. But be aware the solutions you come up with may be suboptimal. After a certain time period, ask for help. Show what you’ve done to those with more experience and ask for feedback. Take the best of what you have learned and any feedback you gained, and leave the rest behind. Noone likes the person who asks for help too early and expects someone else to tell them what to do; we all love a trier. But don’t take it too far; try your own way first, but at some point, take a break and ask for feedback and assistance. From:
http://www.opiniomics.org/a-guide-for-the-lonely-bioinformatician/
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When you want to share your work, please be professional and provide very clean and to-the-point information. Don’t just share many images and a lot of emojis.
Let’s be professional!