Useful Info

Requesting tissue from the PD brain bank

If you want to request brain tissue from the MRC Brain Banks network then you need to fill out this form

Have a look at the database here to see what tissue they have. It may not have everything so you're probably best emailing Steve Gentleman.

Requesting tissue from the Netherlands brain bank

Fill out the form here:

https://www.brainbank.nl/brain-tissue/application/

Contact person is Inge Huitinga i.huitinga@nin.knaw.nl

You can view their tissue here: https://www.e-nbb.org/account/

General info an availability is here: https://www.brainbank.nl/brain-tissue/availability/

Delivery addresses

The location to deliver to within ICIS is 'IC WCWL MOLECULAR SCI RES HUB'. Address is Molecular Sciences Research Hub, 80 Wood Lane, Imperial College, W12 0BZ.

How to get files from the sequencing facility

When a sample is given to the sequencing facility, they need to be provided with an email address. Please create a mailing list using Office 365, then add everyone relevant to your project (including me) and give that email address to the facility. That way everyone relevant gets the username and password for accessing the dataset.

Karen Davey wrote a guide to getting data of the iRODS system and onto RDS project folders: https://gist.github.com/NathanSkene/3889048dd42c3d054a1f9db2a6b2765f

The sequencing facility have a wiki page which then explains how to access the data and transfer it to the RDS project folder. Please always transfer the data to the RDS project folder (speak to me if you do not know what this is).

Booking meeting rooms: E519 Burlington Danes

It has a shared calendar available through outlook (rmneuro5flo@imperial.ac.uk) for checking availability. In Outlook, go to calendar mode --> Open shared calendar --> Search for person (rmneuro5flo@imperial.ac.uk). You can just email a meeting invite, but you're supposed to do so via Colin Rantle.

Activating network ports

You've sat at your desk and tried connecting to the wired ethernet network... and it doesn't work. Take a photo of the port, write down all the numbers on it, and create a ticket on the IT system asking for it to be activiated.

Using the printers

All printers at Imperial are connected to the same print management system. You send something to the printer, then go to whatever printer you want, tap it with your card and pull your jobs. You should install the drivers for this system onto your computer. If you find something prints strangely, it may be because you are doing it from your web browser: download the file and then print.

Requesting a permanent IP address

Always useful to have if you have an Imperial desktop. Just send a ticket to IT through the ticket system and request one. Send them a photo of your computers badge to speed it up.

Useful resources

List of major datasets relevant to enrichment analyses: https://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/Enrichr/#stats

Storing scientific (large) datasets online with permanent addresses (and DOIs): https://zenodo.org/