Step-by-step guide from iGEMers on publishing iGEM Projects
Academic publishing can be a difficult task with a number of factors to keep in mind even before you start writing. iGEM community’s Academia and Research Network’s first workshop in the Academic publishing workshop series provided a comprehensive look at how to write scientific articles. To provide more perspectives on academic publishing with context to iGEM work, the next workshop in the series “Q&A panel of iGEMers with published iGEM projects” is dedicated to helping iGEMers communicate their iGEM work to the broader scientific community.
The iGEM community is ripe with enthusiastic, innovative and young scientists who have made their mark on this world with their ideas and scientific contributions through their iGEM projects. Each year hundreds of teams provide new perspectives to synthetic biology and showcase their projects in the Jamboree and through publications. Who better than iGEMers to guide and encourage new iGEMers to publish their work? Watch the whole workshop here (Link)
Some excerpts:
During the panel discussion Kasper Spoelstra from the iGEM TU_Delft 2017 suggested that writers should get a realistic picture of what needs to be done before publication and speak to experienced researchers about this.
Lukas Aufinger from iGEM Munich 2017 talked about how it is necessary to make a manuscript draft no matter how bad it may be and also make figure draft & SI draft.
Speaking about motivation on why you would want a paper, he discussed how peer review would add great value to your work especially in academic careers.
Resources:
Overleaf for writing
Data Analysis and Plotting - MATLAB, Python (Jupyter lab)
Illustration - Inkscape, Illustrator
The iGEM Academia and Research Network provides a platform for our community to engage, develop a better understanding and improve their knowledge of the recent research trends in Synthetic Biology through academic-related activities. Find more about them on our website.
