In a related note of worst practices, the main research assistant (who was doing most of the lab's work) died unexpectedly and since no one was using any form o

In a related note of worst practices, the main research assistant (who was doing most of the lab's work) died unexpectedly and since no one was using any form of version control we couldn't find his code and data after his death. Which was doubly tragic because we were in the middle of a promising cancer drug trial and it sputtered out after the cell line testing because the original predictions and methodology were gone. The solution from the PI was to have everyone buddy up and tell your partner where you kept code on your laptop.