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<h3>Testimonials</h3>
<p>NRNB values feedback from the network biology community. Below is a collection of
testimonials collected from collaborators, users and students when asked how their
interaction with NRNB has impacted their involvement with the network biology community
as well as their carreer opportunities and training.</p>
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<a>testimonials_gsoc</a>
<h4>GSoC Students</h4>
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<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote2><i>"It's not only a good opportunity to work with professional developers to improve the
programming skills, but also a chance to learn biological knowledge and better understand the biological
systems through meeting with those experienced tutors."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote2><i>"I feel great to work with a group of enthusiastic biologists, engineers and developers on
many interesting projects."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"That is the very valuable experience and it could be very helpful for either job hunting or
applying gradate school. There are lots of people in this community know Cytoscape very well."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I already published one paper and another one is in preparation. All of them are based on my
GSoC projects with NRNB."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"Thanks to the participation and the projects done in Google Summer of Code with NRNB, I was
selected for an internship at INRIA Paris and also did my Undegrad thesis there subsequently. The experience
with NRNB helped improve my technical skills and gave me strong experience in professional software development."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I participated in the Google Summer of Code after my first year of Undergraduate Studies. It was an
amazing learning experience and introduced me to Open Source development. It helped me improve both my technical and
interpersonal skills."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
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<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"Involvement in the GSOC with NRNB was all upside for me. In my search for a network visualization tool
I found Cytoscape as the best alternative, but it lacked the capability to visualize dynamic graphs. Discussion with
the Cytoscape community rapidly progressed into mentoring a GSOC project with an excellent applicant. Ultimately I
gained the dynamic network visualization tool that I sought, along with experience as a mentor, experience in open-source
development, and in gaining a number of valuable academic contacts. All good!"</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I made valuable academic contacts and also developed important software tools."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"Provided good initial contacts in the Network Biology community"</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"It opened new career opportunities for me, and allowed me to get new work experiences. I was able to
cite the experience in subsequent job interviews and it was very helpful to my career."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"The program exposed me to a new experience and allowed me to expand my knowledge in the field. By
engaging me and challenging me, my mentors made me learn a great deal. The program was a big boost to my career
advancement and it gave me the experience I needed to move towards my goals. As a student, the program allowed me
to deepen my technical knowledge and let me go beyond the theory that I learn in my studies. My mentors were incredibly
helpful and it was a remarkable learning experience."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"It has had a great impact on my career and I learnt a lot during the period I worked with my mentor
Mr. Augustin Luna. It was fun, very wonderful and and extremely productive experience. Working with XSLT and other
related technologies in developing the plugin also helped me through my job in India."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I had co-authored a paper along with my mentors for GSOC. This was a huge surprising bonus along with
the other benefits of being a GSOC student of NRNB. This gave an edge to my grad-application when I applied to universities
for my MS in Comouter Science."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I was part of the Google Summer of Code program in collaboration with NRNB. I had the opportunity
to learn and work with Mr.Augustin Luna (main mentor) and Dr. Martijn P. van Iersel (my secondary mentor). I had never
been part of such a big project until I worked with NRNB. It was great to work on my plugin from scratch and integrating
the things with PathVisio and working with Pathvisio's source code base. Lot of days I worked with my mentor Mr.Augustin
way past our usual timings in the night and that was fun. Suddenly we would come up with a solution to a particular
problem and this was very satiating."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"It certainly was a big boost for my career. I was told by my actual employer that one of the things that
made my resume stand out was my experience from GSoC with NRNB."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I simply had no involvement at all with the Network Biology research community prior to the NRNB training
programs I took part in, and now I'm actually starting to work on a Master Thesis (in computer science) that will heavily
involve Cytoscape and other NRNB tools."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"In my personal opinion, the 3 GSoC NRNB programs I took part in were hugely successful for my career. I did
not only got involved with the Network Biology research community, but also with open source software development and a lot
of techniques and tools that were previously unknown to me. I really hope these training programs continue, so that many more
people can have the same opportunity that I did."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I started graduate school the year after completing GSoC. My experiences during the summer of 2010 helped to
prepare me for that endeavor. In particular, my graduate program requires all first year students to take a programming exam,
and my experience with GSoC turned out to be a fantastic way to study for this exam."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"My direct line of research has drifted away from network biology since completing GSoC, however my experiences
have enabled me to help/mentor others in my research group who do work directly on problems in network biology."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I had absolutely fantastic mentors when I participated in GSoC in the summer of 2010. I believe they were a large
reason why I feel that this program really helped to give me a leg up in both confidence and skill when I started graduate
school."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"It provided me with real world, hands on experience that allowed me to have just landed on a great job."</i></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"Before NRNB I have had no contact whatsoever with the Network Biology research community. Now, I have written and
published several pieces of code that are being used by biologists."</i></b></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="span6">
<blockquote><i>"I have had great pleasure working on the NRNB training programs, and I can say that I've greatly benefited from them.
Not only I was introduced to the Network Biology research community, but I also learnt many technical skills along the way.
Currently, I'm participating for a last time as a student in NRNB GSoC, and after my upcoming graduation I am definitely interested
in continuing my involvement with this great community. If it weren't for NRNB training programs, I would have never got in touch
with the people I'm working on, nor with this amazing field of study."</i></blockquote>
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