Ten simple rules for forming a scientific professional society

• Bruno A. Gaëta ,

  * E-mail: bgaeta@unsw.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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• Javier De Las Rivas,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Group, Cancer Research Center (CiC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL/IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain

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• Paul Horton,

  Affiliation Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST, Tokyo, Japan

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• Pieter Meysman,

  Affiliations Biomedical Informatics Research Center Antwerp (biomina), University of Antwerp/Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5903-633X

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• Nicola Mulder,

  Affiliation Computational Biology Division, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, IDM, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4905-0941

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• Paolo Romano,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics group, Proteomics laboratory, IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, Genoa, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4694-3883

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• Lonnie Welch

  Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

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