Welcome to the Pollack Group Lab Manual!

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This manual is always under construction. If you would like to fix any mistakes, request additional material, or modify content, please submit a new Issue on GitHub.

Figure 1: Adam’s Dog Beaux (placeholder for lab photo)

Overview

The purpose of this manual is to help new members and collaborators build a shared base of foundational knowledge for the kind of work we do in the Pollack Lab Group. This is a collaborative, living document build with Quarto and hosted with GitHub Pages.

This manual details lab procedures, policies, and expectations for research group members (and may be helpful for collaborators to consult). The manual contains four sections:

  1. Lab Values outlines the expectations we have for each other and ourselves to ensure a functional, healthy, and productive lab group.
  2. Onboarding is your first stop as a new lab member (and may be helpful for others) to get your working environment and workflows set up.
  3. Guide is the home of our (always growing!) lab resources, how-tos, and tips for building a strong knowedge foundation for the kind of work we do in the group.
  4. Cookbook is a collection of recipes for recurring lab procedures, including tasks from how to contribute to this manual to research methods.

Credit

The organization and content of this lab manual borrows heavily from several documents:

  1. The Quarto Website & GitHub Repository
  2. The Srikrishnan Group at BEE Cornell Lab Manual
  3. The Reed Group at Cornel CEE Lab Manual
  4. The Julia Workshop for Data Science at ISMB, 2022

A huge thank you to all of these sources for making their work open and instructive!