Software Registration

Registering Illumina Connected Software

What is Software Registration?

Thank you for purchasing Illumina Connected Software. Illumina Connected Software is made available for your use by completing a registration process. The registration process “activates” the software and enables you to assign access to specific persons who will use it. The process has four steps:

1. Click a link in an email provided by Illumina.

2. Access the Illumina Connected Software Registration Portal.

3. Identify a software administrator.

4. Configure software settings.


Information You Need to Register Illumina Connected Software

To register your Illumina Connected software subscription or software consumable (e.g. iCredits) you will need the following:

  1. An Illumina order confirmation or registration reminder email.

  2. Email address of a person acting as software administrator (See: “Choosing a Software Administrator").

  3. Optional: Names of existing Illumina Software workgroups or domains.

Choosing a Software Administrator (Admin)

Choosing a Software Administrator

The admin email address should be for a person or group that knows enough about your team’s use of the software to provide team members with access to the Illumina Software product(s) when requested.

NOTE: Software administration does NOT require any advanced technical or computer skills.

Software Administration Features

The administration features of Illumina Software are quite simple. Some of the things an admin can do:

1. Invite, remove, and manage user access to Illumina Software products

2. Organize users into “workgroups” so they can collaborate on the platform

3. Limit user access to specified email addresses

4. Limit user access to specified domains (ex: lucyhealthcorp.com)

5. View the Illumina Software usage reports

Tips for choosing an admin email address

  1. Use the same email to register apps together if they are purchased as a solution. For example:

    • Illumina Connected Analytics and Cohorts need to be registered with the same domain and administrator email.

    • Illumina Connected Insights can only be enabled if registered with the same domain and administrator email with Illumina Connected Analytics.

  2. The administrator email address can be shared by an informatics team, for example sequencingcore@Illumina.com.

  3. By default, when registering software to a new domain or workgroup the email address of the person registering the software will be used as the admin.

  4. The admin email address can be changed later, if necessary. To do so, contact Illumina Technical Support.

How to Register Illumina Connected Software

Below are examples of Illumina order confirmation and registration reminder emails that you should have received. Clicking on the button provided in these messages will bring you to the Illumina Connected Software login page in Step 2.

If you do not have an Illumina order confirmation or registration email, then please contact Customer Care at customercare@Illumina.com. For additional contact information, click here.

Step 2: Access the Software Registration Portal

NOTE: A public Illumina user account is required to access the Software Registration Portal

The Software Registration Portal requires the use of a public Illumina user account which is different than the one used to access most of your Illumina Connected Software subscriptions other than non-Enterprise BaseSpace Sequence Hub software.

If you do not have a public Illumina user account, then select the link labeled “Don’t have an account” to create a user from the public Illumina login page. The same email address can be used as your other Illumina user account(s).

If you already have a user account for Illumina Software, enter those credentials into the login screen and proceed to step 3 below.

If you do not have a user account, then select the link labeled “Don’t have an account” to create an Illumina user account.

You should choose this option if this is the first time you have registered through the Software Registration Portal.

Fig. 2 - Public Domain login page

Step 3 - Identify a Software Administrator

Once you have logged in, you will see the software registration page. This page is where the software is configured for your use. Here, you assign access to a specific person who will be the software administrator.

The process contains two steps:

Fig. 3 – The Software Registration Page

Step 3a - Role Verification

This is the step where you identify your role in registering software and identify a person to be software administrator. You will need the email address of the person who will serve as software administrator.

An administrator is the person who leads or organizes an Illumina Connected Software domain or workgroup. An admin can add or remove users, provide access to specific products, and view software usage data.

If you are unsure of the email address that should be used for the software administrator, then refer to the “Choosing a Software Administrator” section above.

There are four roles available to choose from. These identify you as a purchaser, an admin, both, or neither. Select your role in your organization and press the “verify” button.

Here are the software actions and the system notifications assigned to a user when they select a role by clicking the “Verify” button.

Step 3b - Assign another person as an administrator

You should use the link labeled “Assign another person” to invite someone else to become software administrator if:

1. Your role is purchaser or a different role related to software.

2. You were sent an Illumina registration email incorrectly.

3. Someone else on your team should be acting as software administrator.

The images below (see fig.5-6) show the link labeled “Assign another person as an administrator" below each order awaiting registration.

When you click the “Assign another person” link, a modal window is displayed where you can enter the email address of the person you wish to invite. Press the “Assign” button to send an email to that person containing links to the Software Registration portal.

When that person logs into the Software Registration portal and completes the software configuration steps below, the software is available for use.

Step 4: Configure software settings

Step 4a - View Products Pending Registration

The person identified as software administrator may view and register software orders pending registration (Fig. 7).

Step 4b - Products Pending Registration Details

Each product listed contains two types of information for the user to select or review.

  1. Order detail information includes the dates on which the order was placed, the order, number, and the product that was ordered. This data in this section is not editable.

  1. Configuration Details are software settings. Examples are AWS region selection or selecting/creating an enterprise domain that the software instance will be associated with.

Examples of configuration details for specific Illumina software are shown below.

Configuration Examples: How to Configure Illumina Software

There are two types of software that use the registration process:

  1. Software Subscriptions

    • BaseSpace sequence Hub Professional Subscriptions

    • ICA Professional, ICA Enterprise, Illumina Connected Insights Subscriptions

  2. Software Consumables

Examples: iCredits, Genome Equivalent Samples, Illumina Complete Long, Reads cloud analysis, Consumption billing

The Configuration Details for different types of software are slightly different. The sections below contain three examples that describe how to configure each software type.

NOTE: It is important to complete the registrations for subscriptions FIRST before registering software consumables. Software consumables require an active subscription for them to be used.

Example 1: Configuring BaseSpace Sequence Hub Professional Subscriptions

There are two settings to configure for this software subscription:

1. Select the Instance Region for Your Subscription

2. Select a Professional Workgroup or Create a New Professional Workgroup.

Setting 1 - Select the Instance Region for Your Subscription.

This selects the AWS Region where your software will be installed and run. Most administrators select a region that is close to their geographic location. If you are unsure what instance region to select, click here to learn more.

Setting 2 - Select or Create a Professional Workgroup

Q: Why do I have to choose a workgroup?

A: Workgroups are used by some Illumina Software to control access to different customer’s data and assets.

New and Existing Workgroups

If your login has access to existing workgroups, these are listed on the page for you to choose from. Selecting an existing workgroup will not change the user access on the account. If you do not have existing workgroups, then select the create new menu item and type in the name you prefer (Fig. 11-12). Remember to select the name of the professional workgroup you created so that it appears in your completed configuration (Fig.13).

If the value “Create New” is selected from the dropdown menu, then a modal window is displayed which enables the user to create a new workgroup name.

Press the Register Button

Once the configuration settings have been selected, pressing the register button at the bottom of the order item makes that software available for use. Within 15-30 minutes, you will also receive a welcome notification to confirm the account details.

Example 2: Configuring Illumina Connected Analytics (ICA) Subscriptions

There are two settings to configure for this subscription:

1. Select the Instance Region.

2. Select or Create a Domain.

Setting 1 - Select the Instance Region

This selects the AWS Region where your software will be installed and run. Most administrators select a region that is close to their geographic location. If you are unsure what instance region to select, click here to learn more.

Setting 2 - Select or Create a Domain

Q: Why do I have to choose a domain?

A: Domains are used by some Illumina Software to control access to different customer’s data and assets. Examples of a domain are “dcehealth.Illumina.com” or “coreseqinc.Illumina.com”. Choosing a domain is required when registering BaseSpace Enterprise, Illumina Connected Analytics, or Cohorts subscriptions.

Press the Register Button

Pressing the register button at the bottom of an order item makes that software available for use. Within 15-30 minutes, you will receive a welcome notification to confirm the account details.

Example 3: Configuring Software Consumables (iCredits or Sample Analyses)

Once a subscription has been registered, then you can select software consumables and add them to your subscription. Examples of software consumables are iCredits or Sample Analyses.

  • iCredits are the units that Illumina customers purchase to pay for cloud compute and storage resources they consume in Illumina Software.

  • Sample Analyses are the units of software sold with Illumina Product that entitle a customer to perform genomic analyses in Illumina Software. Examples of this are Illumina Complete Long Read sequencing kits or the Illumina Connected Insights service that provides cloud-based tertiary analysis.

There is only one setting to configure for this software consumables:

Setting 1 - Select a Professional Workgroup or Enterprise Domain

Q: Why do I have to choose a workgroup or domain?

A: Workgroups and domains are used by Illumina Software to control access to different customer’s data and assets.

Press the Register Button

Once the configuration settings have been selected, pressing the register button at the bottom of an order item makes that software available for use. Within 15-30 minutes, you will also receive a welcome notification to confirm the account details.

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