Useful Links
Lab Basics
QuickCalcs – Quick calculations used in the everyday lab life. Run it directly in your browser.
Molarity Calculator – Dilute or prepare solution starting with volume & concentration; mass & concentration; or mass & volume.
Sigma-Aldrich Technical Library – Another quick reference link, including composition of concentrated reagent grade acids, acid and base solution preparation, solution dilution calculator and solvent property chart.
Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) Recipe – Quick reference for preparing phosphate-buffered saline. By Cold Spring Harbor Protocols.
Subculturing Adherent Cells – Quick reference for subculturing adherent cells. By Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Useful Numbers for Cell Culture – Quick reference with useful numbers for cell culture (e.g., surface area and volumes of dissociation solutions). By Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Freezing Cells – Quick reference for freezing cells. By Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Thawing Frozen Cells – Quick reference for thawing frozen cells. By Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Counting Cells with a Hemocytometer – This video demonstrates the process of counting cells using a hemocytometer.
Running a Flow Cytometry Experiment – This videos demonstrates the setup of a a basic two-color flow cytometry experiment in BD FACS Diva.
Potassium Phosphate Buffer Preparation – Protocol adapted from Sambrook & Russell for the preparation of potassium phosphate buffer.
Peptide Stuff
PepCalc.com – Peptide property calculator.
IonSource – Mass spectrometry educational resources.
Scientific Communication
English Communication for Scientists – This is an ebook that guides scientists on how to communicate more effectively in English, not only in scientific papers but also in correspondence and oral presentations.
Elsevier Research Academy – Webinars covering several aspects of a research career, including funding, communication, and peer review.
Publons Academy – Free peer review training course offered by Publons. Especially useful for early career researchers.
Journal Finder Tools
Looking for a journal to submit your manuscript? These tools can help.
Web of Science Manuscript Matcher – This tool uses publisher-neutral data and statistics to choose the right journal for your paper.
Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE) – Results not limited to a specific publisher company. This one is also useful for finding papers and authors related to your study.
Elsevier Journal Finder – Find a suitable journal among those published by Elsevier.
Springer Nature Journal Suggester – Find a suitable journal among those published by Springer Nature.
Wiley Journal Finder – Find a suitable journal among those published by Wiley.
Taylor & Francis Journal Suggester – Find a suitable journal among those published by Taylor & Francis.
Other
Reduce the size of a PDF online – This Adobe Acrobat online service compresses PDF files directly from your browser.
SI Unit rules and style conventions – Quick reference guide for unit rules and style conventions.
Free Statistics Calculators – These statistics calculators are free to be used by researchers and students.
How to Report the Results of Statistical Analyses – This link directs to a guide on how to report two-way ANOVA results (there are guides for other tests as well) with general structure and examples of wording.
R Stuff
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - 'This is an opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization'.
R Programming Tutorial - Learn the Basics of Statistical Computing – Learn the R programming language in this overview of R.
Principal Component Methods in R – How to summarize and visualize information in a large multivariate datasets.
R for Data Science – Online textbook by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham.
What They Forgot to Teach You About R – Best practices for managing projects by Jenny Bryan and Jim Hester.
Teacups, Giraffes, and Statistics – Illustrated and interactive introduction to R and statistics.
R Markdown: The Definitive Guide – Comprehensive textbook on R Markdownby Xie, Allaire, and Grolemund.
The ggplot Flipbook – by Gina Reynolds
Data Visualization - Online textbook on data visualization in a sensible, comprehensible, reproducible way by Kieran Healy.
Advanced R – Online textbook by Hadley Wickham.
InVivoStat – A robust statistical software program that utilizes R as its underlying statistics engine. This tool is tailored for researchers who perform animal experiments and is available for use at no cost.