Ten simple rules for a successful cross-disciplinary collaboration

Bernhard Knapp; Rémi Bardenet; Miguel O Bernabeu; Rafel Bordas; Maria Bruna; Ben Calderhead; Jonathan Cooper; Alexander G Fletcher; Derek Groen; Bram Kuijper; Joanna Lewis; Greg McInerny; Timo Minssen; James Osborne; Verena Paulitschke; Joe Pitt-Francis; Jelena Todoric; Christian A Yates; David Gavaghan; Charlotte M Deane

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004214

Ten simple rules for a successful cross-disciplinary collaboration

PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 30;11(4):e1004214. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004214. eCollection 2015 Apr.

Authors

Bernhard Knapp¹, Rémi Bardenet¹, Miguel O Bernabeu², Rafel Bordas³, Maria Bruna⁴, Ben Calderhead⁵, Jonathan Cooper³, Alexander G Fletcher⁶, Derek Groen⁷, Bram Kuijper⁸, Joanna Lewis⁹, Greg McInerny³, Timo Minssen¹⁰, James Osborne³, Verena Paulitschke¹¹, Joe Pitt-Francis³, Jelena Todoric¹², Christian A Yates¹³, David Gavaghan³, Charlotte M Deane¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
² Centre for Computational Science, Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁷ Centre for Computational Science, Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁸ Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Centre for Information & Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Guest Scholar, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America; 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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Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Cooperative Behavior*
Interdisciplinary Communication*
Interdisciplinary Studies*
Leadership*
Models, Organizational*
Organizational Objectives
Science / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

The 2020 Science programme is funded through the EPSRC Cross-Disciplinary Interface Programme (grant number EP/I017909/1). The authors received no specific funding for this article.