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Hi Doug,
We rolled the costs of offline workstations and any annual software costs into the instrument rate.  Anyone using the workstation is also using the instrument.  Such software is sufficiently expensive that few investigators will invest in their own copy.   Maybe your SIM workstation can also be available to other uses, such as FIJI or preparing figures, in which case you can either assume that it’s the same user base, or pro rate the SIM charge.  


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On Mar 11, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Cromey, Douglas W - (dcromey) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> We are planning a University core facility around a Structured Illumination Microscope.  One of the discussions is to what extent we should (or should not) charge users for using the second workstation for processing their SIM images or just working with the data (which is large enough to be potentially difficult to work with on more average computers).  For those of you who have such an instrument, how do you do it?  Do you have different rates for sitting at the workstation, vs overnight batch-type image processing of the raw SIM data?
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