Cornell University

Information

  • Digital Dropbox [link]. Send sensitive files securely.
  • Physical Sciences Library [link]
  • Physical Sciences Library Blog [link]

Safety

  • Chemical Inventory (Vertere) [link].
  • Material Data Safety Sheets online [link].
  • Laboratory Safety Manual and Chemical Hygiene Plan [link].

Entrepreneurship

  • Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) [link]
  • Cornell Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) [link]
  • Cornell Tech (New York City) [link]
  • Tech Crunch [link]

LaTeX and BibTeX

  • Overleaf [link]
  • betterbib [link]: maintain your BibTeX files by comparing them with online sources and correcting whatever entries are found faulty
  • bibclean [link]: prettyprint and syntax check BibTeX and Scribe bibliography data base files
  • JabRef [link]: graphical-user interface for reading, writing, and searching bib files

Programming

  • Software Carpentry: Teaching Lab Skills for Scientific Computing” [link] has many helpful lessons [link]. Note especially the tutorials Version Control with Git [link] and Programming with Python [link].
  • [Merali2010oct] Merali, Z. “Computational Science: …Error”, Nature, 2010, 467, 775 - 777 [10.1038/467775a].
  • [Wilson2014jan] Wilson, G.; Aruliah, D. A.; Brown, C. T.; Chue Hong, N. P.; Davis, M.; Guy, R. T.; Haddock, S. H. D.; Huff, K. D.; Mitchell, I. M.; Plumbley, M. D.; Waugh, B.; White, E. P.; Wilson, P. & Eisen, J. A.“Best Practices for Scientific Computing”, PLoS Biol, 2014, 12, e1001745 [10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745]

Reproducible Research

  • John Marohn’s public research notebook [link]
  • Git [link]. Version control, the lab notebook of the digital world!
  • Tutorial: “Version Control with Git”, the Software Carpentry Foundation [link]

The Marohn Lab at Cornell University