Golden Helix | Research IT Core Services

Golden Helix

PLEASE NOTE: GOLDEN HELIX LICENSING CHANGES EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

As you know, we continue to work toward negotiating the best products at the best pricing for our research community. Over the past several years, CCRF has purchased an annual site license from Golden Helix. However, this strategy has not proven to be cost effective to purchase and manage this site license; therefore, CCRF will not be renewing its site license with Golden Helix. The current site license will expire on June 30, 2016.

What to do if you want a license?

To purchase an individual license or for additional information on other software products from the vendor Golden Helix, please contact:1.888.589.4629 or info@goldenhelix.com

Need Help?

For technical assistance with other research software, email software@bmi.cchmc.org. For basic desktop support or assistance with clinical information systems, call the Cincinnati Children's Service Desk, 513-636-4100, or visit the Information Services CenterLink site. UC employees should call the UCit Help Desk, 513-556-HELP.

A note about UCit software

UC researchers are served with desktop software by UCIT. In many cases this software is licensed specifically to UC employees only (i.e., people who receive paychecks from UC) or must be run on UC-owned or controlled equipment, making it inaccessible to Cincinnati Children's personnel. Please make sure you read the license agreement carefully before you use UC software.

Faculty and students of UC are eligible to purchase software from UC. However, when purchasing from UC, the license agreement states that the software can be installed only on your personally owned or UC-owned computer and not on machines owned by other institutions. Since Children’s Hospital is a separate entity from UC, installing software purchased from UC on CCHMC owned computers is a violation of that license agreement. There is a difference in the price of software purchased from Biomedical Informatics at Children’s Hospital versus from the UC Bookstore. This difference is because UC qualifies for the educational discount whereas Children’s Hospital does not. Although Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is affiliated with UC, we are not a degree granting institution. We are a hospital, therefore we only qualify for the healthcare/non-profit discount.