I met the ISCB RSG Turkiye team in 2011 in the first student symposium which was held as a satellite meeting with HiBiT. I was working in a de novo genome project and it was my first time presenting a serious project as a graduate student at a symposium. Many of you can picture my anxiety. But things got better immediately: I met colleagues from Turkiye!

Some of you may have difficulty understanding why it would be “that” important and pleasing to meet colleagues. Well…

If you live and study in a developing country and you are, almost, trying to study in a new research area, here’s your life’s new soundtrack: “All by myself”. Every single living thing in life needs a proper environment to become something. So, like a plant needs soil, water and light, becoming a scientist requires a scientific environment.

So, as a living organism, I made connections and became a part of the group. Then we found out that we needed another movement towards real scientific talk. With this need, BioInfoNet Project was born. We wrote a proposal to the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology) Student Council. They kindly supported us and here we are.

Today, as a student group, we have reached roughly 250 people all around the world (and the number is increasing). We have completed two successful webinars given by top-notch researchers, which we were really pleased to participate in. We are planning ahead for a student symposium and many more webinars.

We will make new movements whenever needed. Join us. Communities are good :o)