Proposal for "Bioinformatics & Computational Chemistry" on Stack Exchange Network

I cordially invite you to help create a "Bioinformatics & Computational Chemistry" community on Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange is a fast-growing network of question and answer sites. Participating in the Q&A system, you can:

• Ask questions in any area within or across Computational chemistry\biology disciplines
• Find if others have questions that you have encountered in your research or professional career and answer them
• Vote for questions and answers
• Build reputation as a Bioinformatics or Computational Chemistry expert
• Help build a knowledge-base for computational chemistry\biology 

Let us create a visible, sustainable and open community of chemistry and biology using StackExchange. 

Why StackExchange?

It is easy to put up a Q&A system, but it is much more difficult to develop a successful sustainable community. StackExchange forces a community to build, and prove itself by the commitment of users to the StackExchange Communities. This is done through it's Area51 process. 

How to Participate?

To create a Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry Q&A community hosted by StackExchange, we need to demonstrate participation, and generate a sustained flow of Q&A exchanges. The intial steps are:

1. Visit : http://area51.stackexchange.com
2. Create an account : click here (opens in new tab)
3. Go to the "Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry" proposal: click here
4. Click "Follow It!"
5. Ask example questions. Your reputation grows as your questions and comments are voted up by other users. Discuss whether questions posted by others is suitable for the community.
6. Vote for questions. You help others earn a reputation..

Stages:

Definition ===> Commit ====> Beta ====> StackExchange site

(Currently this community is in definition phase.)

I hope you find "Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry" community useful and it achieves the "COMMIT" status soon.

CRITERIA FOR THE “BETA” STATUS: 200 participants; 100 participants with 100+ reputation points on other StackExchange sites

CRITERIA FOR STACKEXCHANGE SITE: 15 questions a day; 90% questions answered; hundreds of users; more than one answer per question; 1500 visits a day

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