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Editorial
. 2017 May 25;13(5):e1005512.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005512. eCollection 2017 May.

Ten simple rules for surviving an interdisciplinary PhD

Samuel Demharter  1 , Nicholas Pearce  2 , Kylie Beattie  2 , Isabel Frost  1 , Jinwoo Leem  2 , Alistair Martin  3 , Robert Oppenheimer  4 , Cristian Regep  3 , Tammo Rukat  2 , Alexander Skates  2 , Nicola Trendel  2 , David J Gavaghan  3 , Charlotte M Deane  2 , Bernhard Knapp  2
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Ten simple rules for surviving an interdisciplinary PhD

Samuel Demharter et al. PLoS Comput Biol. .
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