# Welcome to Nucleus - Start Here! 👋

**URL:** <https://forum.nucleus.engineering/t/welcome-to-nucleus-start-here/5>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** feature-request, bug, discussion, question\
**Created:** [September 16, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.nucleus.engineering/t/welcome-to-nucleus-start-here/5 "2025-09-16T22:08:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/nucleus/original/1X/f28b2254cdde2fe0ff297d74535522060800ddc0.png) [@system](https://forum.nucleus.engineering/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.nucleus.engineering/t/welcome-to-nucleus-start-here/5/1 "2025-09-16T22:08:34Z")

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**Welcome to the Nucleus Community Forum - Start Here!**

We’re excited to have you join the Nucleus community. This guide will help you get oriented and start participating.

**How to use this forum:**

**👋 Introduce yourself**

- Update your profile with your research interests and current projects

- Share what brought you to synthetic cells

- Tell us what you’re hoping to build or discover

**🗂 Find your category**

- **Distribution** → Validated protocols and documentation

- **Hub** → Computational tools and Jupyter support

- **Developer Notes** → Share experimental results and get feedback

- **CDK** → Software toolkit questions and development

- **General** → Everything else about our community

- **Feedback** → help us improve this site with your feedback

**🏷 Use our tagging system**

- `bug` → Something’s broken or not reproducible

- `feature-request` → Suggest improvements to any part of Nucleus

- `question` → Need help or clarification

- `discussion` → Share results, ideas, or general conversation

**🚀 Start contributing**

- Search before posting - your question might be answered

- Share both successes AND failures - we learn from both

**Getting help:**

- Can’t find the right category? → Start in General

- Technical issues? → Post in the relevant category with appropriate tag

- Forum problems? → Head to Feedback

- Private concerns? → Flag any post to contact moderators

**Your first steps:**

1. Set up your profile

2. Browse recent discussions

3. Introduce yourself in General with the `discussion` tag

4. Jump into conversations that interest you

Welcome aboard!

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**Author:** ![surendra](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.nucleus.engineering/surendra/32/14_2.png) [@surendra](https://forum.nucleus.engineering/u/surendra)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.nucleus.engineering/t/welcome-to-nucleus-start-here/5/2 "2025-10-20T22:25:38Z")

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Looks good. Looking forward to see it in full flow