Basic Research Software

Belfer Office for Dana-Farber Innovations (BODFI)

Budget office

Clinical researchers

Clinical trial administration

Office of General Council

Pharmacy

Research administrators

Research staff

Technical Support

ChemDraw

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:46:15 +0000

ChemDraw

Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/03/2021 - 17:46

ChemDraw is a molecule editor and chemistry communication suite for the transformation of chemical drawings into shareable chemical knowledge.

RCS Wiki: Chemdraw

Websites for research and clinical programs

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 19:11:39 +0000

Websites for research and clinical programs

DF/HCC

Outside participating sites

admin Mon, 12/07/2020 - 14:11

Graphic design, content, programming, social media, and hosting

DFCI’s Health Communication Core develops websites ranging from simple, static sites to complex, interactive web applications. The HCC creative team provides professional writing, graphic design, programming, social media, and strategy development services for:

Research recruitment/retention
Online interventions
Decision aid development
Research dissemination
Awareness and outreach

Contact health_communication@dfci.harvard.edu to explore how HCC can help strengthen your online presence.

Clinical researchers

Lab Websites

KRT9 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:14:41 +0000

Lab Websites

KRT9 Thu, 06/04/2020 - 09:14

Develop and maintain lab websites

DFCI's Communications Department offers a Lab Website Program (LWP) at no cost, utilizing DFCI branded templates designed for non-technical professionals to learn and use.
Contact to get started: Luise Dittrich - Project Manager, LWP.

Research staff

Technical Support

Visio

KRT9 — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:23:42 +0000

Visio

Microsoft Office/Office 365 Requests

KRT9 Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:23

Diagramming and vector graphics app often used to map workflows

Visio licenses are obtained by submitting an IS Service Desk request.

Technical Support

FileMaker Pro

KRT9 — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:27:58 +0000

FileMaker Pro

FileMaker Pro 18 download

KRT9 Wed, 10/16/2019 - 12:27

Tool used to create custom apps

FileMaker Pro Advanced includes a set of advanced tools to help you design and develop custom apps faster and easier. Plus, you’ll get robust analysis capabilities, powerful diagnostic tools, and much more.
Partners offers FileMaker Pro free to clients as long as they host your database.

Code42 (CrashPlan)

KRT9 — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:33:27 +0000

Code42 (CrashPlan)

KRT9 Thu, 09/19/2019 - 20:33

Desktop & laptop backups

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.

Research Computing Infrastructure request form

UCSC Genome Browser

KRT9 — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:14:07 +0000

UCSC Genome Browser

KRT9 Wed, 09/04/2019 - 11:14

Interactive website offering access to genome sequence data

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.

The UCSC Genome Browser is developed and maintained by the Genome Bioinformatics Group, a cross-departmental team within the UCSC Genomics Institute. For more information about Genome Browser, you can visit the UCSC website and FAQs. You can access the Genome Browser via DFCI gateway.

Genome Browser

Sequencher

KRT9 — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:11:45 +0000

Sequencher KRT9 Wed, 09/04/2019 - 11:11

DFCI hosts a set of Sequencher site licenses for use by the DFCI community

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.

RCS Wiki: Sequencher