ICTS has been contracted by the Science Faculty to manage their four student computing labs. Gerhard Mohammed, the Lab Administrator, manages the labs and assists faculty staff in booking the lab for classes. Together with Assistant Lab Administrators, he assists students where necessary and ensures that they abide by the lab rules as set out in the General Rules and Polices handbook.

Access to the labs

LabWho can use it?Number of PCsLab location
Sci Lab AOpen to all, but mainly used by the Computer Science Department88Room 1.06, Ground Floor, Computer Science Building
Sci Lab BOpen to all, but mainly used by the Computer Science Department32

Room 1.06, Ground Floor, Computer Science Building

Sci Lab COpen to all but mainly used by the Departments of Chemistry, Botany and Molecular & Cell Biology.67Room 4.37, Fourth Floor, RW James Building
Sci Lab DOpen to all students but mainly used by the Department of Statistics.88Room 1.12, Ground Floor, PD Hahn Building
Sci Lab D AnnexOpen to all students but mainly used by the Department of Statistics.32Room 1.12, Ground Floor, PD Hahn Building

Opening hours


Lab
Term timeTimes
Sci Lab A and BMonday - Thursday08h30 - 21h30
Friday08h30 - 21h00
Saturday10h00 - 15h00
SundayClosed
Sci Lab CMonday - Friday08h00 - 17h00
Saturday - SundayClosed
Sci Lab D1 & D2Monday - Friday08h00 - 17h00
Saturday - SundayClosed

Your lab administrator


Lab Administrator

Gerhard Mohamed

Scilab D, Ground Floor, PD Hahn Building
Gerhard.Mohamed@uct.ac.za
021 650 4472

Assistant Lab Administrator

Jesse Marc Daniels

Scilab A and B, Ground Floor, Room 1.06, Computer Science Building
Jesse.Daniels@uct.ac.za 
021 650 4472

What software is available in the Science labs?

The standard lab software is available in the labs. In addition, the following software is available in Science labs.

LabSci lab ASci lab BSci lab CSci lab DSci lab D Annex
AnyLogic 8.6.0

Arduino 1.8.13

Autograph

BioEdit Sequence Alignment Editor 7.2.6.1

Chimera 1.14 (build 42094)

Data Analysis Plus® 5 plug-in for Excel

ECLIPSE 4.17 (2020-09)

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2.3

jGRASP 2.0.6_05

MATLAB R2020b

Mega 7

Mendeley 1.19.6

Meshlab 2020.07

MiKTeX 2.9.3972

MS Silverlight

Netbeans 12.1

Netlogo 6.0.2

Octave 5.2.0

Opera 71.0.3

Oracle Java SDK version 8 update 261

PyCharm education edition, version 2020.2.2

PyQt GPL v5.11.3

Python 3.8.0 (Anaconda3 4.8.3 64-bit)

Python 3.9.0

QGIS 2.10

R 4.6.0

R Studio 2026.04.0-526

Respondus Lockdown browser

Rtools 4.0

SIMUL8 2010 v17.0 build 2778

Sqlite Expert Personal 5.4.2.493

Texmaker 5.0.4

TeXstudio 3.0.1

Version: 2025.05.0+496     
Wing IDE 101 7.2.5-0

WinShell ver 3.3.2