Welcome to the homepage of WUSS - the Web Utilities and Software Seminar!.

This MLS-approved seminar series is meant to introduce students to free, useful software and online tools with the potential to make our lives as PhD students easier!

On this page, you can find the latest news and announcements. Click here for more information on upcoming seminars, such as dates and topics. Here you can find information about past sessions, while the link collection allows quick access to and details of previously presented tools. For feedback or enquiries of any kind, please visit the contact page.

Most importantly: As this seminar series is organized BY PhD students FOR PhD students, we need your active participation. So please click HERE to volunteer for giving a presentation (we can provide you with a topic) or just letting us know some neat tools.

WUSS: Literature

Posted: 26-MAY-2010

You are cordially invited to the "Literature" session of the WUSS seminar series.

Date: May 27th
Time: 6.30 PM
Location: HIL C 10.2 (Hönggerberg)

After the seminar we would be glad if you would join us for a beer or two in the newly opened "Alumni Bar" (in the same building).

Please check the flyer for more information.

WUSS: Inaugural Session

Posted: 28-APR-2010

You are cordially invited to the inaugural session of the WUSS seminar series.

Date: April 29th
Time: 6.30 PM
Location: Y55 L06 (Irchel Campus)

An apero will be served afterwards!

Please check the flyer for more information.

Examples

Posted: 16-FEB-2010

• iPad ELN - Electronic lab notebook
• LabLife - LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System)
• CiteULike - Literature organization
• Galaxy - Data integration and analysis

WUSS Up!

Posted: 16-FEB-2010

• Were you ever annoyed by a lack of organization in your lab or your own data / materials?
• Are you again behind in your lab notebook?
• Did you ever wonder how other people made those fancy graphs and figures?
• Did you ever wonder why you are often the last one to find a paper that is important for your own work? Or maybe you do find the papers when they come out, but never manage to find them when you need them?
• Do you have to do the same analysis over and over again and just wished there would be a program that can do that for you? ...well, maybe there is!

We believe that there are a lot of web utilities and software tools out there that may help significantly with these and other problems of a PhD student's life. But we also realized that in many cases we just found such tools by chance or maybe because a friend told us about them. Also, the vast number of tools and databases is just so overwhelming that often one doesn't know where to start and then just feels too lazy to get into any of them. In order to share such little or big helpers and make it easy to get into them, we have founded

WUSS - the Web Utilties and Software Seminar.