CUIT Research Services offers the following in iLab:

• Discounted Research Software Licenses

• Empire AI Credits

 Discounted Research Software

Discounted annual software licenses available through group subscriptions, managed by CUIT Research Computing Services.

Services:

• GraphPad Prism licenses
• Graphing and statistical software for creating publication-quality graphs and analyzing scientific data with t-tests, ANOVA, linear and nonlinear regression, survival analysis
• Each license may be activated on two computers (e.g. a work device and a home device). 
• If someone from your lab leaves or gets a new computer, the license can be deactivated and redistributed to a different computer.

• SnapGene licenses
• Molecular biology software for planning, visualizing, and documenting DNA cloning and PCR; allows feature annotation and primer design.
• A SnapGene license can only be active on one computer at a time. If someone from your lab leaves or gets a new computer, the license can be deactivated and redistributed to a different computer. 

• BioRender Premium licenses
• Scientific image and illustration software used for creating professional, accurate figures and diagrams using a library of 50,000+ pre-made, scientifically accurate icons and templates for the life sciences and medicines.
• BioRender is a web application (not a downloaded tool), so you can access it on any computer with internet.
• Note: Columbia's BioRender subscription uses a UNI-based login. You cannot share a license with anyone else.

All technical support for these tools continue to go through the respective corporate software support teams; CUIT is not responsible for technical issues other than account provisioning and billing.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT CONTACT INFORMATION:
GraphPad Prism: support@graphpad.com
SnapGene: support@snapgene.com
BioRender: support@biorender.com

For additional information and FAQ, please refer to our Research Software Solutions webpage.

**WARNING: CUIT's group subscriptions of BioRender, GraphPad Prism, and SnapGene are not certified to hold/process sensitive data (RHI, PII, PHI-related clinical data). Please refer to the University's Data Classification Policy if you are not sure of your data's classification, and ensure that you do not use sensitive data in BioRender, GraphPad Prism, or SnapGene software."**

 Empire AI Credits

Service information coming soon!

RESEARCH SERVICES LEADERSHIP:

Halayn Hescock | Senior Director, Research Services

Email: hh276@columbia.edu

TEAM:

Axinia Radeva | Senior Manager, Research Computing Services

Email: ar2667@columbia.edu

Jessica Eaton | Research Analyst (primary contact for discounted research software)

Email: je2429@coumbia.edu

Elizabeth Kwon | Research Computing Specialist (primary contact for Empire AI)

Email: ek2864@columbia.edu

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