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WashU IT Research Infrastructure Services’ mission is to facilitate the discovery of knowledge and enhance educational opportunities by providing secure, sustainable, scalable, and integrated research technology services in a collaborative and diverse environment.

Why RIS? – Researchers at WashU are encouraged to use RIS to streamline their work, boost performance, ensure data security, and foster collaboration with ease, all while focusing on groundbreaking discoveries and quality research. Explore the full benefits of using RIS.


The future of scientific computing at WashU is here

The RIS team has completed each vendor’s delivery, installation, and configuration of hardware and are working on configuring the new SLURM job scheduler and supporting systems. We will select early adopters for usability and performance testing to ensure our cluster infrastructure meets Compute2’s highest performance, security, and reliability standards. We are targeting June 2025 for […]

Research @ WashU with the Turner Lab

Mission:  While not synonymous with Precision Medicine, Precision Genomics plays a crucial role within its broader scope alongside fields like Precision Psychiatry and Precision Imaging. As a research lab, the Turner Lab is dedicated to advancing Precision Genomics by tackling five key challenges(in the above image) that currently limit its application for everyone. Resulted Success:  In the Turner […]

Enhancing the RIS User Experience

We have launched the enhanced customer onboarding process with significant updates to our website and documentation communication platforms. These platforms’ enhancements will provide a more intuitive and user-friendly interface for getting information and support. These enhancements include: We look forward to enhancing your RIS experience!

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Jun

Introduction to LabArchives Inventory

June 17, 2025 to December 16, 2025
12:00 pm
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Jun

Introduction to LabArchives ELN

June 19, 2025 and June 26, 2025
12:00 pm
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Jul
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Aug

Introduction to protocols.io

August 11, 2025
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm