Thanks for the post and sorry for taking so long to get back to you. It was a holiday here and this slipped through the cracks.
When a user signs up for an account they are part of the Free Chorus Service. The free service within Chorus is limited to 100 GB of data. If you want to put more than 100 GB of data into Chorus you will need to set up a payment mechanism to establish an Enterprise Account. One of the primary reasons for these minimal fees are to ensure that the resource is sustainable as it it unlikely that federal funding sources will support repositories like this long-term (Kaiser J. Funding for key data resources in jeopardy. Science. 2016 Jan 1;351(6268):14–14. PMID: 26721983)
Additionally, within the Enterprise account there are a lot of expanded capabilities. Below are some of our prices.
Likewise to process data within Chorus costs $200/month for the lab. Beyond that, the user is charged a fee based on the cost per CPU hour. These costs are in general very small compared with the cost of owning your own computing hardware, software licensing, and support infrastructure.
Services Offered | Unit Size | Unit Price |
Active Storage – Storage for data that is actively being processed. Data physically exists on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Pricing includes triplicate redundancy and all data transfer costs into and out of Chorus | 500 GB | $40/month |
Archival Storage – Long-term storage for infrequently accessed data. Data physically exists on Amazon’s Glacier Service. Pricing includes triplicate redundancy and all data transfer costs into and out of Glacier and Chorus. | 500 GB | $7/month |
Support for Processing Services – Processing pipelines incur a support burden. To offset some of this burden, each lab using the processing capabilities must pay a support cost to have access to processing pipelines. | Per Lab | $200/month |
CPU Costs to Run Pipelines Managed on Chorus | Per CPU Hour | Variable Depending on Pipeline |
All of these costs are for the laboratory and there are lots of ways a lab can pay for this. Most commonly are establishing a credit through PayPal, providing a credit card so that the lab can be billed monthly for their use, or setting up a purchase order that can be invoiced on a monthly basis.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
-Mike
