[Bioperl-l] provide examples of good and bad ML questions for a candidate 'Ten Simple Rules' article

[Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio]

Hello everybody,
I would like to invite you to an initiative that our group launched a
few weeks earlier this month.

We are writing a paper in the style of PLoS CompBiol 'Ten Simple
Rules' series, about 'How to get Help from Mailing Lists and Online
Scientific Communities'.
- http://www.wikigenes.org/e/pub/e/137.html

Mailing lists and forums/online communities can be an important
resource for researchers. The OpenBio.* mailing lists are an example
of this, as they are the medium where all the bio.* projects are
coordinated and where new users meet experts.
However, using mailing lists correctly is not easy, and there are some
rules that not everybody is aware of, but that must be respected in
order to obtain good answers. Taking inspiration from this last point,
we decided to launch the initiative of a candidate 'Ten Simple Rules'
article.

The article is open to contributions, which means that everybody is
free to edit the manuscript and that the authors of the most important
contributions will be invited to sign the paper.
More precisely, at this point of the writing, the main body of the
manuscript is almost complete. However, we need help for completing a
table with examples of good and bad mailing list questions. I bet that
the most experienced followers of this mailing list can easily provide
many examples of badly posed questions they have seen (and hopefully
some good ones); so, if you have the time to make your contribution,
please join the wiki and the mailing list and help us making this
manuscript more complete.

Please feel free to forward this message to who you believe interested.


-- 
Giovanni Dall'Olio, phd student
Department of Biologia Evolutiva at CEXS-UPF (Barcelona, Spain)

My blog on bioinformatics: http://bioinfoblog.it