Research Software

Overview:

ChemOffice is a scientifically intelligent, integrated suite of personal productivity tools that helps scientists to efficiently keep track of their work, gain a deeper understanding of their data and produce scientific reports professionally and efficiently.

Eligibility:

• HMS on-Quad faculty/staff only

Access:

• Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)

Eligibility: 

• Lasergene is licensed for use only on the HMS network!
• Available only to HMS on-quad faculty, staff, and students
• This license does not extend to staff and faculty at any HMS affiliate institutions.
• Boston Children's Hospital affiliates can contact BCH Research Computing to use Lasergene at BCH: researchcomputing@childrens.harvard.edu

Access: 

• Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)
• You must only have Lasergene running when it is actually in use, as network licenses are limited. Please quit Lasergene when you are done using it. If you leave Lasergene running on your computer, it is still consuming a license. 

Overview

Research Computing manages a central site license of FlowJo, a version of flow cytometry analysis software, available to HMS and HSPH on-Quad users on a per-department basis. This centralized pooling of licenses reduces overall costs, but unlike other products (Lasergene, MATLAB), HMS IT does not pay for any actual licenses.

This means that all license costs of using FlowJo are charged back to participating departments annually, based on individual usage.

Eligibility

• Available to anyone working at Harvard University (Faculty, Staff, Postdocs, and Students)
• HMS affiliated hospitals do not qualify for this license.

Access

• Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac
• Support for FlowJo: is provided by the publisher: https://www.flowjo.com/support
• eCommons/HMS ID required.
• Trial installers can be found on the FlowJo website - Windows, Mac.
• Information on finding your HWA
• Renewal: Licenses are renewed automatically each September 30th. To opt out of automatic renewal, send an email to flowjo@hms.harvard.edu
• Questions about FlowJo can be directed to flowjo@hms.harvard.edu

Request

• Request a FlowJo license via the online request form

Cost

• $250 per year, billed annually
• Harvard Departmental 33-digit billing code required
• License term is September 30-September 29
• License renews automatically at the  September 30th, each year
• To opt-out of automatic renewal, send an email to rchelp@hms.harvard.edu
• No prorated pricing available for this software

Overview:

An intuitive and powerful sequence analysis and bioinformatics software 

Eligibility:

• Harvard's Geneious license server resides at FAS and is accessible from the HMS network. To get a license, you must be directly on the HMS network or connected to it via the HMS VPN. 
• Only HMS members based on-Quad are eligible to use this license. HMS affiliates (e.g. at hospitals) are not.
• You must only have Geneious running when it is actually in use, as network licenses are limited.

Access: 

• Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)

Overview

Research Computing manages a pool of licenses for GraphPad Prism. Prism is available for both Windows and Mac computers and combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization.

Eligibility: 

• Available to anyone working at Harvard University (Faculty, Staff, Postdocs, and Students)
• HMS affiliated hospitals do not qualify for this license.

Access: 

• Compatible Platforms: Windows, Mac
• Registration: must have valid Harvard email address
• Renewal: Licenses are renewed automatically each October 28th. To opt out of automatic renewal, send an email to graphpad@hms.harvard.edu
• Support: Software support is available from the vendor by web at https://secure.graphpad.com/support/
• License Transfer: Licenses may be transferred between a license holders various computers, but may not be transferred to a different user. If a current license holder needs to transfer the license to a different computer, they should email graphpad@hms.harvard.edu with the Computer Names for both the old and new computer.
• Additional Questions: Email graphpad@hms.harvard.edu

Request

• To request Prism licenses, please complete this online form
• eCommons/HMS ID required. 

Cost

• $40 per installation 
• Harvard Departmental 33-digit billing code required
• License term is October 28-October 27
• License renews automatically at the  October 28th, each year
• To opt-out of automatic renewal, send an email to rchelp@hms.harvard.edu
• No prorated pricing available for this software

Eligibility: 

• Available to all HMS, HSDM, and HSPH Quad-based Staff/Faculty/PostDocs.
• Other HMS Affiliates do not qualify for this license.

Access: 

• Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)

Eligibility: 

• Available to all HMS, HSDM, and HSPH Quad-based Staff/Faculty/PostDocs.
• Other HMS Affiliates do not qualify for this license.

Access: 

• Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)

Overview

HMS Research Computing, in cooperation with Harvard FAS provides a server-based license for LabView. LabVIEW is a graphical programming platform that helps engineers visualize, create, and code engineering systems with scale from design to test and from small to large systems.

Eligibility: 

Available to all HMS Quad-based Staff/Faculty/PostDocs/Students.

Access: 

Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)

Eligibility: 

You must have one of the following affiliations to be eligible for this license:

• HMS Quad-based faculty, staff, and students.

Access: 

• Please visit https://software.hms.harvard.edu  to access instructions and software. (Log in with Harvard Key required)

Support

• MATLAB user guides: http://www.mathworks.com/help/
• MATLAB Tutorials: https://www.mathworks.com/support/learn-with-matlab-tutorials.html
• If you run into any X11 issues under Mac, you can try to install XQuartz.
• Installation Notes for all platforms
• Before installing, you can verify the system requirements
• Please carefully read the MATLAB Installation Notes
  • You can also reference the installation notes on the Mathworks website

Overview

SnapGene is molecular biology software that allows users to plan, visualize, and document molecular biology procedures. Select the DNA fragments that you wish to fuse, and SnapGene will design the primers. 

The Research Computing department manages a pool of licenses for SnapGene is available for both Windows and Mac computers.

Eligibility

• Available to all HMS quad-based staff, faculty, and post-docs.
• Students who work in HMS-based research labs are also eligible
• 33-digit Harvard billing number required for payment
• HMS ID
• HMS affiliates do not qualify for this license.

System requirements

• Windows 10 or later
• macOS 10.13 or later
• Fedora Linux 21 or later
• Red Hat Linux 7.2 or later
• Ubuntu Linux 14.04 or later

How to request

To request SnapGene licenses, complete this online SnapGene Request Form

Licensing

• $96 per year, per computer
• Harvard Departmental 33-digit billing code required
• Licenses are renewed automatically in the month of October each year.
• To opt-out of automatic renewal, send an email to rchelp@hms.harvard.edu
• No prorated pricing available for this software
• License Transfer: Licenses may be transferred between license holders various computers, but may not be transferred to a different user. If a current license holder needs to transfer the license to a different computer, they should email rchelp@hms.harvard.edu with the Computer Names for both the old and new computer.

Support

• Software support is available from the vendor by web at SnapGene Support 
• Tutorial Videos
• User Guide
• Additional Questions: email rchelp@hms.harvard.edu