Ten Simple Rules for Getting Help from Online Scientific Communities

Citation: Dall’Olio GM, Marino J, Schubert M, Keys KL, Stefan MI, et al. (2011) Ten Simple Rules for Getting Help from Online Scientific Communities. PLoS Comput Biol 7(9): e1002202. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002202 Editor: Philip E. Bourne, University of California San Diego, United States of America Copyright:  2011 Dall’Olio et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, Funding: GMD is supported by grants SAF-2007-63171 and BFU2010-19443 (subprogram BMC) awarded by Ministerio de Educacio´n y Ciencia (Spain), the Direccio´ General de Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya (Grup de Recerca Consolidat 2009 SGR 1101) to JB. KLK is supported by a 2010–2011 Fulbright student research grant to Spain. LJJ is supported by a donation from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. JM is supported by funding from the University of Zurich. MIS is supported by a long-term fellowship from EMBO. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.