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Abstract | ||
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We present a new educational initiative called Meet-U that aims to train students for collaborative work in computational biology and to bridge the gap between education and research. Meet-U mimics the setup of collaborative research projects and takes advantage of the most popular tools for collaborative work and of cloud computing. Students are grouped in teams of 4-5 people and have to realize a project from A to Z that answers a challenging question in biology. Meet-U promotes "coopetition," as the students collaborate within and across the teams and are also in competition with each other to develop the best final product. Meet-U fosters interactions between different actors of education and research through the organization of a meeting day, open to everyone, where the students present their work to a jury of researchers and jury members give research seminars. This very unique combination of education and research is strongly motivating for the students and provides a formidable opportunity for a scientific community to unite and increase its visibility. We report on our experience with Meet-U in two French universities with master's students in bioinformatics and modeling, with protein protein docking as the subject of the course. Meet-U is easy to implement and can be straightforwardly transferred to other fields and/or universities. All the information and data are available at www.meet-u.org. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005992 | PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Research design,Coopetition,Nothing,Biology,Engineering ethics,Jury,Bioinformatics,Cloud computing | Journal | 14 |
Issue | Citations | PageRank |
3 | 1 | 0.37 |
References | Authors | |
4 | 49 | |