Research Guides: Bioinformatics Software: Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA): User Policy

USC IPA Access Policy

IPA is provided to all USC faculty, staff, students, and authorized USC-affiliated researchers for a recharge fee.
To be eligible, you must be a USC faculty, student, staff or affiliated researcher, and you must have a primary USC email address as the IPA login is integrated with USC Single Sign-On (SSO).
The USC IPA license currently consists of three concurrent user seats. All users must comply with the following procedures and rules to ensure proper and fair access to this software:
If you exceed any session duration limits, your session will be subjected to forced termination at our discretion without any advanced notice. USC Libraries Bioinformatics Service is not, nor the Ingenuity Systems, responsible for any loss of analysis result due to a forced logout.
Do not exceed the maximum limit of session duration as defined below.

	Monday - Friday	Saturday - Sunday (holidays)
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Up to 3 hour/session, no consecutive sessions Up to 6 hours total during the period	Up to 6 hour/session Up to 12 hours during the period
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 a.m.	Up to 5 hour/session Up to 10 hour total during the period	Up to 6 hour/session Up to 12 hours during the period

Any session that exceeds the duration limit will be subjected to a forced termination without advanced notice.
A first violation of the maximum access time limit (either per session or per time period) will result in an email warning.
Three such violations will result in suspension or permanent loss of full access to IPA of the violator.