Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
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1 Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 Centre for Computational Science, Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 3 Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 4 Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5 Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 6 Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 7 Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 8 Centre for Information & Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 Guest Scholar, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 10 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 11 Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 12 Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction, Departments of Pharmacology and Pathology, University of California, California, San Diego, United States of America, 13 Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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