Software

The SAS System is an integrated suite of software with modularly designed tools for data warehousing, EIS, OLAP, rapid application development, and applied analysis. Feinberg manages a school-wide SAS network license.

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Price: $89.98 / yr

License Period: Annual, renewed on 8/31/25, not prorated

Limitations: One device per license, cannot be installed on Apple devices

The SPSS software suite is a complete statistical toolkit. SPSS offers a wide range of statistical procedures, including descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and data visualization. Feinberg manages a school-wide SPSS network license that has the full features of a SPSS GradPack Premium license.

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Price: $83.85 / yr

Period: Annual, renewed on 11/30/25, not prorated

Limitations: One device per license, can only be installed on a Feinberg managed device, Northwestern Medicine and Lurie Children's devices are not supported

GraphPad Prism allows users to create a variety of graphs, including scatter plots, histograms, box plots, and more. It offers a wide range of customization options for graphs, ensuring they are suitable for publication. Most commonly used statistical software within Feinberg. Feinberg manages a school-wide GraphPad network license.

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Price: $110 / yr

Period: Annual, renewed on 10/9/25, not prorated

Limitations: One device per license, this software must be used for Feinberg research purposes only.

Stata is a widely-used statistical software package that's used for data manipulation, analysis, and visualization. Stata provides a comprehensive range of statistical methods for descriptive, inferential, and advanced analyses. 

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Price: Depends on the edition - $250 / yr (Standard Edition)

Period: Annual

NVivo is a software intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data. NVivo helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.

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Price: $725 / yr

Period: Annual

JMP accelerates exploration and discovery, giving you new ways to visualize and understand your data and share your findings with others. Analysis is faster, especially with large data sets, and you get more options for drag-and-drop graph-building, as well as new tools for analyzing quality and reliability data, designing efficient experiments, interactively comparing models, creating customized applications, and more.

JMP can be obtained through Northwestern University's Central IT following this link

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Price: Free for Northwestern student, researchers, and faculty

Stat/Transfer is a software designed to simplify the transfer of statistical data between different programs. Stat/Transfer allows you to select output variables and control their storage types, allows case selection, random sampling, and provides a variety of options to let you tailor Stat/Transfer to match your needs and the nature of your data. The Stat/Transfer user interface lets you do routine transfers with just a few clicks of the mouse. Complicated transfer operations can be saved in automatically-generated programs and re-run from the menus or from another program or batch file.

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Price: $249 / yr

Period: Annual

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming tool included in the suite of Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins. It enables users to create a wide range of visuals, from straightforward flowcharts to intricate network diagrams. A standout feature of Visio is its seamless integration with Microsoft Project. This integration facilitates the importation of data from a Project file into Visio, which can then automatically generate a timeline diagram. Such diagrams are particularly useful for visualizing project schedules and tracking key milestones with ease.

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Price: $24.66 / yr

Period: Annual

BioRender is an online, cloud-based platform that allows researchers to create scientific figures. Create and customize membranes, cell layers, and DNA in seconds with drawing tools. Visualize and customize 3D protein structures with our PDB integration or upload your own protein data file. Easily auto-align to a grid or other objects for a clean and professional look.

BioRender can be requested by Feinberg faculty, staff, and graduate students through Feinberg's BioRender team, follow this link to submit a REDCap form for access

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Do not place any identifiable data into the BioRender tool (no PHI, PII, etc.)

Price: $155.40 / yr

Period: Annual

For BioRender related questions, please reach out to biorender@northwestern.edu

MATLAB is a programming and numeric computing platform for engineering and scientific applications like data analysis, signal and image processing, control systems, wireless communications, and robotics. MATLAB includes a programming language, interactive apps, highly specialized libraries, and tools for automatically generating embedded code.

MATLAB can be obtained through Northwestern University's Central IT following this link

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Price: Free for Northwestern student, researchers, and faculty

Microsoft Project, is a project management service within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins  that allows for the development of schedules, resource assignment, creation of tasks, tracking, budget management, workload review, and the sharing of this information with chosen stakeholders.

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Price: $65.43 / yr (Pro), $115.29 / yr (Premium)

Period: Annual

Parallels Desktop, allows users to run Windows or Linux as a virtual machine within their Mac environment. Seamless integration with macOS, allowing users to easily switch between Windows and macOS applications. Suitable for developers, designers, and power users who need to run Windows software or test cross-platform applications. 

Price: $70.84 / yr

Period: Annual

Limitations: Feinberg currently has limited support for Windows installations on Mac devices due to differences in hardware architecture. Using remote desktop to access a native Windows device is recommended.