Become a writer!
We are happy to announce a writing contest for beginner-friendly articles on bioinformatics. The web magazine http://en.bioinformatyk.eu collects articles for bioinformatics students that are easy to understand. You are welcome to participate by contributing a short article about a topic of your choice, e.g.:
- Fancy algorithms & bioinformatics tools you have used.
- Amazing discoveries you read about.
- Present your lab and what it has achieved.
- How you survived your BSc, MSc, or PhD thesis.
- Books, events, science news.
You don’t need to describe original research (we’d even suggest you save this up for your first paper). What matters more important is to explain bioinformatics in a clear or entertaining way.
How to participate?
To submit an article, prepare a MS Word or OpenOffice document with your text in English (200-1000 words). Prepare eventual figures as separate files (.jpg or .png). Finally send everything by email to contest [at] bioinformatyk.eu - we will take care of the rest. If you want to submit something more complicated, please send a PDF and we will contact you for details.
The submission deadline for the contest is September 18th, 2011 October 31st, 2011.
Remember that you need to have copyright of everything you are submitting. Also, if your article contains results from your research, please make sure that your supervisor agrees with that.
Prizes!
The best articles will be awarded by an international board of referees:
- 1st prize: 150,- USD
- 2nd prize: 50,- USD
- Reader’s prize: 50,- USD
- Book prize sponsored by the Dean of the Biological Faculty, UAM Poznan: ~300,- USD
Regulations
You can find the detailed regulations of the contest on:
Contest regulations page
