This is the procedure for handling
Software Transfer Agreements (STAs) created at the
Delila Server
and
Delila Agreement
web pages.
(Note: you must log into the Delila Server before seeing the
agreement. You can log in using the guest account,
user: guest, password: guest.)
I (Tom Schneider)
designed this streamlined procedure so that access to the Delila
system could be provided within a day.
The previous procedure took up to several months.
This detailed page is provided
to clarify the gory micro-steps of this process
so that they are clear to everybody
since it is pretty complicated and four groups are involved:
the
PROVIDER (Tom Schneider),
the
USER,
the NIH
Technology
Transfer Branch (TTB)
and
Peter Rogan.
USERs should just relax and follow
instructions given on the web site. Refer to this page if
you get lost.
However, please note that there is one point
(marked by the stop sign
)
where the procedure can hang if you don't send us the physical STAs.
The procedure is:
-
If access to
Peter Rogan's
Automated Splice Site Analyses Server is desired,
please set up a guest account on that server first.
- A USER, following the instructions on the Delila Agreement
web pages, creates two STAs,
signs both,
has an
authorized official sign both
(that could be someone such as
a lab chief or someone in their tech transfer office),
and
sends a fax
or
emails a PDF
of one signed STA to the PROVIDER. This is:
Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
NCI-Frederick Bldg 469. Room 105
P.O. Box B
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
301-846-5581 (-5532 for messages)
301-846-5598 fax
email: toms@ncifcrf.gov
permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu
http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
Do not send word documents!
- The USER sends the two signed original STAs to
the PROVIDER by regular mail. This is:
Tom Schneider
NCI-Frederick Bldg 469. Room 105
P.O. Box B
Frederick, MD 21702-1201
Note: Be sure to:
- Sign for Recipient
- Date for Recipient
- Sign for Authorizing Official
- Date for Authorizing Official
- print name of Authorizing Official
- PROVIDER receives the signed STA as
a fax
or
a PDF
from the USER.
- PROVIDER immediately releases the software and
full access to the Delila web server for the USER
by sending an email to them containing a user name and password.
-
The USER
receives
the user name and password
as a fax from
the
PROVIDER.
The USER
can now
access the server, binaries and (if in the STA)
source code.
If access to
Peter Rogan's
Automated Splice Site Analyses Server
has been indicated on the agreement form,
an email will be automatically sent to him at this time and he will activate
access to that server.
-
The USER
confirms receipt of the fax and that the login works,
by sending an email to the
PROVIDER:
toms@ncifcrf.gov
- PROVIDER waits for the two original signed
STAs to arrive by regular mail.
-
If
the
PROVIDER
does not receive the originals
from the
USER
in a reasonable period of time,
then
access will be
blocked
to the USER's account.
The period of time is:
One month from the date
of the username/password fax or PDF
that was sent by the PROVIDER
to the USER.
- PROVIDER signs both STA originals.
- PROVIDER makes a copy of one STA for his
records.
- PROVIDER sends both STA originals to Technology
Transfer Branch (TTB). Currently this is:
Jianbo Hu
Technology Development Specialist
Technology Transfer Branch
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
PO Box B, FVC/500
Frederick, MD 21702-1201
ph: (301) 846-5465
fx: (301) 846-6820
Address to use for internal NIH mail:
Jianbo Hu
FVC/500
- TTB signs both STA originals.
- TTB sends the PROVIDER
an STA COPY for the PROVIDER's records.
- TTB sends the USER a
fully signed ORIGINAL STA.
- TTB keeps a fully signed ORIGINAL STA.