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Public Library of Science, PLoS Computational Biology, 7(10), p. e1003708, 2014

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003708

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Soft Skills: An Important Asset Acquired from Organizing Regional Student Group Activities

Journal article published in 2014 by Jeroen De Ridder, Pieter Meysman, Olugbenga Oluwagbemi, Thomas Abeel ORCID
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Abstract

Contributing to a stu-dent organization, such as the International Society for Computa-tional Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce com-modities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes inter-feres with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. Howev-er, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular ac-tivities more than worth it. In this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills.