Basic researchers
Outlook support
Access Outlook off site
Activate and setup Outlook 2016 for Mac
Mac users: Please do not use the "New Outlook" option -- it causes problems.
Access Shared Mailboxes
Open Public Folders
Code42 (CrashPlan)
Code42, previously known as CrashPlan, is a backup software solution provided by Research Computing Infrastructure for the protection of desktop and laptop computers. It allows you to protect your local machine's files on network storage for safekeeping.
Please note that we don't consider local external storage media solutions like TimeMachine to be sufficient as a backup solution for research data. While local external storage solutions can be useful, they can and do fail.
Enterprise Curation Platform
Platform to enable the curation of standardized, structured, and high-quality data from patient EHR records
Google accounts
To request a Google email account (Gmail), please complete the request form and request a Google apps account. The email address will be <firstname_lastname>@mail.dfci.harvard.edu
If two-factor authentication (2FA) is needed, include it in the request. RCS Wiki: cloud account information
Data storage
Research Computing Storage Management (RCSM)
Storage service which manages the lifecycle and archival of data. RCS Wiki: Research Storage
UCSC Genome Browser
UCSC Genome Browser is an interactive website offering access to genome sequence data from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species and major model organisms, integrated with a large collection of aligned annotations. The Browser is a graphical viewer optimized to support fast, interactive performance. It is an open-source, web-based tool suite built on top of a MySQL database for rapid visualization, examination, and querying of data at many levels.
Sequencher
Sequencher empowers the benchtop scientist by bringing the latest peer-reviewed NGS algorithms out of the command line and into an intuitive point and click interface. Whether performing reference-guided alignments, de novo assembly, variant calling, or SNP analyses.