Where to find us on the EMBL chat
Ever since it’s launch in 2017, EMBL’s Bio-IT chat has been steadily growing in all directions, expanding the range of topics discussed, the number of daily active users and different functionalities, some fun, some productive.
Since around this time last year, the chat has grown to have:
- over 1600 users of which 410 are active on a monthly basis
- 700 channels split between 120 public and 580 private
- 1.5 million posts, which is to say, half million exchanged messages since last year
- a little over 820 board cards, thanks to the adoption of the new Task Management Boards feature introduced last year
With such fast growth and many places to visit, it is normal to find yourself a little lost.
We hear you!! 📣 and we compiled a short list of channels you may want to visit depending on your interests:
Computational research and data management support
- Bio-IT 👉 Bio-IT channel for general bioinformatics, computational support
- Bio-IT-announce 👉 Bio-IT channel for course/workshop and Bio-IT activity announcements
- cluster 👉 EMBL Heidelberg HPC cluster support
- GBCS 👉 Genome Biology Computational Support channel
- Mathematical Modelling 👉 Channel to discuss modelling and interact with the modelling center channel
- STOCKS 👉 Support channel for STOCKS EMBL’s GBCS electronic lab and data management system
- Folding / AlphaFold 👉 A channel to discuss protein folding with AlphaFold and related technologies
- How could be done better 👉 A channel to discuss scientific figures and other kinds of scientific output in a constructive way
Programming and statistics
- Git 👉 Git and EMBL’s GitLab
- Julia 👉 Julia
- MachineLearning 👉 For classic and deep learning discussions
- Python 👉 Python
- R_and_statistics 👉 R and statistics
- RStudio-Server 👉 RStudio EMBL server (by GBCS)
Image analysis
- ALMF 👉 Advanced Light Microscopy Facility support channel
- Image Analysis 👉 Image analysis discussion channel
- Galaxy-Imaging 👉 Support channel for image analysis in galaxy
- Blender 👉 Support channel for Blender a 3D computer graphics and image visualization software
Workflow management and container/cloud technologies
- Galaxy 👉 Galaxy@EMBL (by GBCS)
- Nextflow 👉 Nextflow workflow manager
- Snakemake 👉 Snakemake workflow manager
- Singularity / Apptainer / Docker 👉 Singularity containers
- Cloud Tech 👉 General discussion about cloud technologies
- EMBL S3 👉 Discussion channel about EMBL’s S3 compatible storage
Life at EMBL
- Jobs 👉 Announce jobs and other opportunities in or outside of EMBL.
- marketplace 👉 General trading, buy&sell, giveaways, lost&found, …
- Staff Association 👉 General channel for interaction with Staff Association and Staff Representatives.
- Tax Support EMBL community 👉 Provide and seek answers concerning tax return filling and related questions.
- EMBLAid-Heidelberg 👉 EMBLAid channel for Heidelberg (see also other EMBLAid channels from other sites).
- Trivia session 👉 Join us for some pub-quiz fun time every Thursday at 17:00 and test your general knowledge and typing speed on a fast paced 10-15 minutes trivia.
Renato Alves, EMBL’s Chat team
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