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Helpful Lab Information

I'm new to the lab
Stuart Lab Best Practices
How do I compile and install software (C/C++/R/Java/etc.) for use by the whole lab?
Unix and emacs configuration files
Upcoming and Recent Conferences
Where are our files: an explanation of the organization of /projects/sysbio/.
Where are the automatic backups?: did you just delete something super important? If it was a file created more than a day ago, there is probably a backup.
The School of Engineering has a program with Microsoft to make certain programs available to students free of charge. The program is referred to as the SOE MSDNAA program. You can take a look at what's available here: http://msdn08.e-academy.com/ucsc_eng/index.cfm. To gain access to this program, complete the online request form available at http://bels.soe.ucsc.edu/msdnaa.

Shell one-liners to do amazing things Here is a list of amazing shell script one-liners to do common things. If you write a useful very short script for doing something somewhat common, put it here.
How do I use the lab CVS repository? (CVS is a "track changes" system that allows you to examine old versions of your code.)
Making a Graph using Excel or Gnuplot
Make / Makefiles Our lab work is primarily automated with makefiles. If you don't know how quick.mak (or recurse.mak) works, or what $@ is, then you need to read this before you do anything.
Using screen on UNIX If you ever connect to the unix machines using a terminal, you want to be using screen. There may be a few things in here that you didn't know even if you are somewhat familiar with screen.
R Statistics Help How to easily use R for fancy statistical analysis.
MySQL tips
Batch Correction for RNA-Seq data
Clustering RNA-Seq data

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