Software and Tools
This is a collection of software and tools that people have useful through their grad degree. If you have more suggestions, please send an email to [email protected]!
If you're in the CPS department, you can contact Metha (email: [email protected]) for information regarding free software/IT, and visit: https://it.ubc.ca/software-downloads
Projectors: CPS departmental projectors can be borrowed from Estelle Li. You can walk right into LSI Admin to get it.
Adobe Illustrator (vector images) and Photoshop (raster images) for making figures. (Inkscape and Gimp are free alternatives respectively).
ImageJ is a common free platform for scientific image analysis (check out the Fiji distribution).
Boomerang for Gmail allows you to send emails out at delayed time (perfect for landing at the top of PI inboxes when they check their emails in the morning). Also has a machine learning trained predictor of how likely someone is going to respond to your email.
Slack, for those tired of 100+ email chains, use this chat tool for work instead! (Loewen lab uses it for intra-lab communications)
Graphpad Prism is commonly used for generating nice plots and figures and doing statistical testing on your data.
Dropbox and Google Drive are great for sharing files amongst your lab.
Udacity is a great new platform for learning how to program. Check out the Intro to Programming and Data Analyst nanodegrees to supplement your skills!
Pubions is a platform for tracking your reviewer contributions.
Pubpeer is a website for anonymous feedback and post-publication review of scientific papers.
Projectors: CPS departmental projectors can be borrowed from Estelle Li. You can walk right into LSI Admin to get it.
Adobe Illustrator (vector images) and Photoshop (raster images) for making figures. (Inkscape and Gimp are free alternatives respectively).
ImageJ is a common free platform for scientific image analysis (check out the Fiji distribution).
Boomerang for Gmail allows you to send emails out at delayed time (perfect for landing at the top of PI inboxes when they check their emails in the morning). Also has a machine learning trained predictor of how likely someone is going to respond to your email.
Slack, for those tired of 100+ email chains, use this chat tool for work instead! (Loewen lab uses it for intra-lab communications)
Graphpad Prism is commonly used for generating nice plots and figures and doing statistical testing on your data.
Dropbox and Google Drive are great for sharing files amongst your lab.
Udacity is a great new platform for learning how to program. Check out the Intro to Programming and Data Analyst nanodegrees to supplement your skills!
Pubions is a platform for tracking your reviewer contributions.
Pubpeer is a website for anonymous feedback and post-publication review of scientific papers.