Software to Install

Quickstart: Software you need to work in our group. Install everything & ask IT guy / labmates if you have issues:

Basics: Set operating system and all software to UK English for language and for number format (decimal point as default, not German comma); set location to Germany, currency to €, keyboard to German, date format yyyyMMdd, time format 24h, etc. See LMU IT Accounts page to get and set up Mail, VPN, Proxy etc. For the Mail app on Mac, check your IMAP if you can't search properly.
Everyone: ChemDraw19; Prism6/8; Chimera or ChimeraX (replaces PyMol); FIJI (replaces ImageJ); Office (!set all to default English, and decimal point for Excel; load group templates); Zotero (plus Word plugin and browser Connector); Chrome, Opera, or Firefox; browser plugins for ChemDraw; Slack (add group channel); DropBox Client and LRZ Sync'n'Share Client (add both group fileshare systems); FreeFileSync; eduVPN; FileZilla; Affinity Designer (or free Inkscape) instead of Adobe Illustrator; Adobe Acrobat or a strong PDF editor; VLC.

+BioLab: FACS software (eg. flowingsoftware on Win; FlowJo on Mac); Arduino; get a Benchling bio e-labbook from JA.
+ChemLab: MestreNova (! v.14.1.1 only); TeamViewer (for HPLC-MS); get Open E-nventory chem e-labbook from OTS.
+Recommended: Notion (note-taking and so much more).
+Mac: Handbrake; Paintbrush; TheUnarchiver; HomeBrew; AppCleaner. Use a dotfile to set up fast (ask OTS).
+Win: Thunderbird (good email client; LMU setup guide here); Notepad++; Foxit PDF Reader; 7zip.
+Smartphone: Researcher, and allow it to login through LMU to get full paper access.
+Online Accounts: setup group Google account on computer & phone (talks/meetings calendars; reagent ordering & contact details spreadsheets).
+Browser: Create bookmarks in your browsers for EZProxy (to access all papers) and for CAS-based chemical buying shortcuts. Bookmark Search can be helpful. For browser proxy auto-config (for journal redirection) use eg. Zotero connector, or the LRZ's pac file if you prefer.
-Banned from use at/for work: Endnote & Citavi; Adobe Illustrator; jpgs; nonvectorial picture formats containing text.

What You Need to be Actively Using: an email client eg. Thunderbird, or Mail [preloaded on Mac]; reference manager Zotero; a light text editor eg. TextEdit or Notepad++ instead of Word; a good browser ie Chrome, Opera, or Firefox instead of the default; a light PDF reader (Mac Preview, Win Foxit) instead of Acrobat Reader; to handle .csv files on Mac use Numbers. Learn & match up to the Using Software guidelines (has more details on common software).

The CIP Pool computer room (C1) has computers with full scientific software installed and ready to use (calculations etc).

Videoconferencing

Use Zoom by default. Sign in with your LMU-user through the LMU Zoom portal for full features.
For own-microphone-to-earphones audio feedback: Mac: use Audio Monitor (use option+rightclick for first run). NB default “ambient noise reduction” (in System Preferences / Sound / Input) adds 20 ms time delay so optionally unclick that. Win: no good option yet. Try Control Panel / Sound / Playback / Headset_or_Earphones / Levels: un-mute Line-In and raise the level (some delay) or else installing two extra programmes.

Licences, Optional Software, etc

Paying Software that we have licences for (see also CUP-Software List):
- LMU provides licences for Mestrenova (get licence file mestrelicnew.zip from labmate or Veith directly), ChemDraw (use LMU email address to register; get CD16 locally), VPN setup certificates, and for other scientific programs you want (see list at the CUP Intranet).
- We have licences for graphing software Prism (Mac/Win). Makes high quality vectorial pdf graphs without fuss, do analysis, copy-paste formatting. No graphs made in Excel! Julia administers the licences.
- Affinity Designer (cheaper better version of Illustrator) is a strong vector graphics creator with layer handling. Julia administers the licences.

OpenSource (OS) Science Software

- Structure Viewing: Chimera / since 2018 ChimeraX: a free great protein-ligand viewer that is now better than PyMol and is easier to install. For PyMol you can find many install guides online, or use a precompiled build like MacPyMol.
- Molecular Modelling: software for doing geometry calculations - easiest probably Avogadro and/or ChemAxon's Marvin Sketch; also Ghemical (Mopac based).
- Docking: options include Vina (or older Autodock Vina) or DOCK 6 from UCSF.
* ask Thomas for all modelling & docking software and questions; note a list of FOSS Molecular Modelling software here

Other Software

- Adobe Acrobat or another strong PDF editor
- Get the Arduino GUI (OS) to use our Arduino-based photopharmacology light system (install the group program starter pack for blinking, phototox, duty cycle, etc).
- Notepad++ is fantastic in every way (Windows only). Use it and you'll never go back to writing notes in Word! On Mac, TextMate or BBEdit are the closest power editor alternatives but the native TextEdit program is also ok enough.
- Alternatives to Prism for private use only: Igor Pro (Mac/Win), Origin (Win only), or Trial Prism (Mac only) - ask OTS.
- Alternatives to Affinity Designer for private use only: open source Inkscape, or licensed Adobe Illustrator.
- Vienna RSS reader (OS) informs you automatically of all the articles in your favourite journals as they come out. Install Vienna, download eg. this Chem/ChemBio Journals list, then use File/Import Subscriptions to setup your feeds.