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!

Globus Third-Party Cloud-Hosted Collections are Available

Researchers can now request the use of Globus third-party hosted collections (cloud connectors), which provide a uniform interface for accessing, moving, and sharing data across cloud storage services such as Box and Amazon S3. Why it matters: Globus third-party cloud-hosted collections enable secure, efficient, and scalable data transfers, sharing, and managing cloud-stored data. This makes it easier […]

NIH GDS Security Standards Update

Beginning on April 2, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is implementing changes that require new and renewing Approved Users to attest to compliance with the updated security standards in the NIH Security Best Practices for Users of Controlled-Access Data. Users approved before April 2, 2025, should continue to secure data according to the NIH Security […]

Accelerate your discoveries with CryoSPARC

We’re excited to announce that CryoSPARC (Cryo-EM Single Particle Ab-Initio Reconstruction and Classification), the leading software for cryo-EM data processing, is now available on the RIS platform! CryoSPARC is an advanced software platform designed for analyzing single-particle data in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Why it matters: CryoSPARC enables researchers to reconstruct and visualize 3D structures of biological samples such […]

Supporting the new NIH GDS Policy at WashU

Effective January 25, 2025, NIH implemented a new cybersecurityrequirement for the use of human genomic data from NIH controlled-access data repositories (e.g., NIH dbGaP). Users of NIH controlled-access genomic data will be required to attest that the IT systems used for data analysis and storage comply with NIST SP 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal […]