Setup

How to get started in the Korf Lab

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KorLab/setup

This repository has a number of files, which are considered the onboarding documents for the lab. Please read them in the following order:

• README.md this document
• 01MENTORING.md Ian's mentoring philosphy
• 02EXPECTATIONS.md what to expect when joining the lab
• 03RULES.md practices that are important enough to be called rules
• 04ENVIRONMENT.md set up your bioinformatics programming environment
• 05MISC.md random useful information
• 06DONT.md stuff you shouldn't do
• profile something to source from your login script
• bin some useful scripts if not to use, to think about
  • memcheck examine memory
  • redundancy_check look for duplicate files
  • parallelize run a job list in parallel
• lib some useful libraries
  • korflab.py a few common operations, like reading fasta file