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Gender inequality infiltrates the in silico modeling world

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Gender inequality has been the unspoken truth, rampant for centuries. Although a deep-rooted cultural mindset, the inequality has reverse-translated from society into the way we study and practice science, and more currently, into the computational modeling world.

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A.S.C. is supported by Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS) (jointly funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, and the Pratiksha trust; grant BT/PR17316/MED/31/326/2015). S.S. was supported by DST-INSPIRE Faculty award, Department of Science and Technology, India (DST/INSPIRE/04/2015/000036).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, India

    Anirudh S. Chellappa

  2. Department of Anthropology, Kalahandi University, Odisha, India

    Madhulika Sahoo

  3. Office of Global Engagement, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

    Swagatika Sahoo

  4. Centre for Integrative Biology and Systems medicine, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

    Swagatika Sahoo

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A.S.C and S.S. contributed to the computational part, and M.S. was responsible for the social aspects of the study. All authors wrote the manuscript. S.S. designed and conceptualized the study.

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Chellappa, A.S., Sahoo, M. & Sahoo, S. Gender inequality infiltrates the in silico modeling world. Nat Comput Sci 2, 346–347 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00268-3

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