BioMicroCenter:IPA

Ingenuity Pathway Analysis is being discontinued at MIT. The following email is from The MIT informatics librarian Courtney Crummett:

End of Subscription Notice
Due to a 50% price increase, the current MIT-wide subscription to IPA will end June 10, 2011.

This license was coordinated by the MIT Libraries and funded by contributions from two labs in the Department of Biological Engineering, the Koch  Institute, the Whitehead Institute, and the MIT Libraries. The decision to cancel the current subscription has been made in consultation with all the funding partners.

The collaborative funding model for providing access to IPA was designed to save individual labs and departments money by reducing the cost of their contribution to a site wide license when compared to the cost of an individual license for a research lab. Due to the dramatic price increase, that cost savings no longer exists.

If you would like to arrange for an IPA license for your research group, all data and analyses associated with IPA user accounts will be preserved for 30 days. Access to accounts under new research lab licenses within this timeframe will be seamless. Please contact Julie Deschenes, the Academic Account Manager at Ingenuity: jdeschenes@ingenuity.com, 650-381-5093.

If you pursue this option, please review the license from Ingenuity carefully. The MIT Libraries Office of Scholarly Publishing and Licensing worked diligently to make sure content and language in the license agreement was appropriate for the MIT Community. At the bottom of this message is a list of issues that were negotiated within the current license that you may want to ensure are still included in any license you might agree to.

If your research group is not interested in arranging an IPA License, access to your current IPA account will end June 10, 2011.

Alternative analysis tools can be found on the MIT Libraries Bioinformatics libguide: http://libguides.mit.edu/bioinfo

Please let me know if you have any questions. Courtney

Courtney Crummett Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian MIT Libraries http://libguides.mit.edu/bioinfo

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Issues negotiated within the license last year:

 * use of material from product in publications without permission from Ingenuity
 * change to scholarly, educational, research use from internal
 * clarification that what our users put in remains theirs, doesn’t become property of Ingenuity
 * adjusting language so reasonable use rules exist (“general downloads” had been prohibited)
 * must get user to agree that their Feedback about product is property of ingenuity, not a default that we’ve agreed to in advance
 * anti-clickwrap language so clickable user agreement doesn’t apply if different from the license; defuse language where user had to know who Ingenuity’s competitors were to fully comply
 * restrict confidential information from so that it’s not all licensed materials and results, but just  Ingenuity’s software and documentation and content that was not user-supplied (adding ability to disclose in publications)