Onboarding

If you are new to the group, this page has a list of things you can do to get set up with helpful lab resources.

To request access to any of these resources, email gymreklab-help AT googlegroups DOT com and someone will help you out.

You should also add a picture of yourself to the lab website! Just follow these directions. Note that this process should automatically give you access to our Github organization, as well.

To get access to our lab’s computing resources on Snorlax, TSCC, or Expanse, just follow these directions.

Finally, you should request badge access to our lab by filling out this form. You should mark that you are requesting access to our collaboratory, the “Center for Precision Genomics” (CPG).

Slack overview

We use slack for most day-to-day communication. Note, it’s best to put longer discussions, and any files you don’t want to lose, in emails. Since we don’t have a paid subscription, we can only see the latest 10,000 messages. And 10K messages actually goes by pretty fast (like in a year or so).

There are many channels on slack. Most are for specific projects that you will be added to as needed. But the following public channels are particularly useful:

  • “general” is for general lab announcements. For example, to celebrate papers and birthdays.

  • “computing” for questions/discussion about snorlax or other compute resources

  • “gymreklab-journalclub” is for discussions of interesting papers

  • “gymreklab-trainees” is specifically for trainee related discussions

  • “students” top secret students socializing channel

  • “random” used to have things like free food announcements. But can be for anything you want to discuss, work related or not.

  • “food” for announcing free food and surveying preferences when catering for an event