Software & Downloads

General information

Rules & regulations

• GELIFES Research Data Management Guidelines
• PhD Guide Graduate School of Science and Engineering pdf
• Codes of conduct Dutch Universities

Peregrine HPC computing

• Peregrine documentation online
• Peregrine account request form
• Peregrine courses

For PhD students

• A Moderate Advice for Graduate Students (Stearns) pdf
• Some Acynical Advice (Reply to Stearns) pdf
• Beginner's Guide to Scientific Misconduct pdf
• How to Write an Influential Review pdf
• How to Write a Scientific Article pdf
• The Art of Grantsmanship - Writing grant proposals pdf
• Guide for Mentors pdf
• How to apply for a job?
• Careers Service
• A classic work on simple writing, first published in 1918, is Strunk & White's Elements of Style. This book (a must-have for any student and conscientious writer) is now available online. A good place to start is Chapter 5 (Words and Expressions Commonly Misused).
• San Francisco Edit Newsletters - Tips for writing scientific texts
• Proofreading your professional documents by native speakers

Miscellanious

• SURFfilesender (to send (encrypted) large files)
• Library RUG
• Web of Science
• Complete Work of Charles Darwin
• MathWorld
• R.A. Fisher Digital Archive
• EvolDir - Newsgroup on evolutionary biology, including announcement of conferences and job offers
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization

Scientific software

Mathematics and Statistics

• CASH Cellular Automata simulator
• GNU Octave
• Gnuplot
• GSL - GNU Scientific Library
• Individual-based Models
• Structure
• The R Project for Statistical Computing
• XPPAut - Matlab interface

Ecology and Evolution

• Evotutor
• NetLogo
• Populus

Text Processing

• JabRef - Java GUI for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies
• LyX The Document Processor
• MiKTeX TeX/LaTeX for Windows

Books & courses

• Introduction to Theoretical Ecology by Peter Yodzis
• Video course on game theory (Yale University)