BCF Wiki

Welcome to the jlab team! Here we collect a list of useful things to know for new team members such as yourself:

1. if you don't yet have a BCF account, please request one or write an email to bcf@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de as soon as possible to gain access to our IT infrastructure. The responsible is Stefan.Janssen@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de; you best put him in CC of your request email.
   1. we sometimes communicate via https://chat.computational.bio.uni-giessen.de/ and less frequent via https://research-chat.uni-giessen.de
   2. ssh into our system, once you have your account
   3. for accessing the JupyterHub check this site: JupyterHub
2. we have electronic door locks. Please contact our secretary Anette.Muendelein@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de to grant you according rights if you don't want to spend too much time in the hallway.
3. we also have physical keys, which you can get from Anette as well
4. we have a weekly group meeting, Mondays at 10:00 am (typically in hybrid format). There is no protocol and it shall serve as a forum for scientific / problem discussion. Please make room in your calendar for this max. 1h meeting. Please ask Anette.Muendelein@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de for the link to the conference system.
5. please remind Stefan, by dropping an email, to add you to our internal mailing list jlab@lists.uni-giessen.de.

additional to-do's for employees:

1. request novel HRZ account (g-Kennung and email) this should automatically be triggered by the University's HR department.
2. ask Stefan to update “people” (https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb08/Inst/algorithm-bioinformatik/people) section on our webpage and mail him a portrait of yourself
3. ask BCF to create an account and add you to the unix group “jlab”. Do so by sending a mail to bcf@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de and add Stefan in CC to show BCF members that this request is legit
4. ask Stefan to share our Google group calendar with you
5. ask Stefan about the link to our shared Gantt chart, which is the minutes of our group meetings
6. coordinate the purchase of a new University laptop for you (ask Stefan about the specifics)
7. if you want to pay the employee price at the cafeterias of the university fill out this form and bring it to their office during business hours (9AM-3PM). Don't forget to bring identification
8. get familiar with the following online resources
   1. inofficial RocketChat: https://chat.computational.bio.uni-giessen.de/ (ask Anna to be added to the channels “cb-internal”, “jlab”, “kuechenchannel”, “support” and “all-bioinf”)
   2. official Chat: https://research-chat.uni-giessen.de
   3. BBB video conference system: https://bbb.computational.bio.uni-giessen.de (internal), and https://webconf.hrz.uni-giessen.de (official)
   4. our wiki: https://dokuwiki.computational.bio.uni-giessen.de
   5. JLU-Box: https://jlubox.uni-giessen.de/
   6. shared desk booking system: seats.jlab.bio
   7. Computing at BCF & Using SLURM at BCF
   8. Remote access to our sytem
   9. Our file system